Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10347
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Silver
Date
1752
Creator
After
J F Kiefhaber, Artist
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X23/5
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 214mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Content object
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.’
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