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Image number: RS.10348
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Tin Crystals
Date
1752
Creator
Johann Michael Seligmann (1720, German) , Engraver
After
Josef Keller (1740, German) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X23/5
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 187mm
width (print): 153mm
width (print): 153mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Illustration of polyhedron tin crystals, oblong, mainly black, some white; including Quartz.
This sample was excavated in Saxony.
Plate 17 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed, ‘Tabula XVII J. C. Keller ad viv. pinx. J. M. Seligmann sculps et excud.’
This sample was excavated in Saxony.
Plate 17 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed, ‘Tabula XVII J. C. Keller ad viv. pinx. J. M. Seligmann sculps et excud.’
Associated place