Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10351
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Quartz with Amethyst Crystals
Date
1752
Creator
After
Johann Michael Seligmann (1720, German) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X23/5
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 194mm
width (print): 145mm
width (print): 145mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Illustration of Quartz with a purple hue, containing amethyst crystals.
This sample was found in Grumbach, Rhine-Palatinate.
Plate 31 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed: ‘Tabula XXXI. Christian Leinberger pinx. J. M. Seligmann excudit. Joh. Sebast. Lectner Sculps.’
This sample was found in Grumbach, Rhine-Palatinate.
Plate 31 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed: ‘Tabula XXXI. Christian Leinberger pinx. J. M. Seligmann excudit. Joh. Sebast. Lectner Sculps.’
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