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    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): 214mm
    width (print): 135mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    Description
    Illustration of 'naked' silver, containing Galena lead and quartz.

    This sample was excavated in Norway.

    Plate 11 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed, ‘Tabula XI. J. F. Kiefhaber ad viv. pinx. J. M. Seligmann sculps et excud.’
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Germany
    Credit
    © The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.10347
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