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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
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    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.’
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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