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    Image number: RS.10351
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    Quartz with Amethyst Crystals

    Date
    1752
    Creator
    Johann Sebastian Leitner, Artist
    Christian Leimberger (1706, Dutch) , Artist
    After
    Johann Michael Seligmann (1720, German) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X23/5
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 194mm
    width (print): 145mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    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.’
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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