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    Image number: RS.10345
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    Crude silver

    Date
    1752
    Creator
    Johann Michael Seligmann (1720, German) , Engraver
    J F Kiefhaber, Painter
    After
    J F Kiefhaber, Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X23/5
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 199mm
    width (print): 129mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    Description
    Illustration of crude silver of a purplish brown.

    This sample was excavated in Freiberg, Saxony.

    Plate 5 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed, ‘Tabula V. J. F. Kiefhaber ad viv. delin. J. M. Seligmann sculps et excud.’
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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