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    Yellow Copper Pyrites

    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): 201mm
    width (print): 132mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    Description
    Yellow Copper Pyrites, Iron Ochre and green ‘aceroso’ copper.

    This sample was taken from a mine in Freiberg, Saxony.

    Plate 7 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed, ‘Tabula VII. J. F. Kiefhaber pinx. J. M. Seligmann sc et excud.’
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Germany
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