Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10345
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Crude silver
Date
1752
Creator
After
J F Kiefhaber, Artist
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X23/5
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 199mm
width (print): 129mm
width (print): 129mm
Subject
Content object
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.’
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