Marine specimens
Date
1710
Creator
Joseph Mulder (1659 - 1718, Dutch) , Printmaker
Object type
Library reference
RCN61717
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 343mm
width (print): 204mm
width (print): 204mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Two wet specimen jars containing marine molluscs and a crocodile egg, the jars with lids decorated with shells, corals, sea urchins and a dried fish. Figure 1 specimens described as: A. Papilla. B. Limax. C. Limacis aperture. Figure 2 Crocodile egg with bladder-wrack Fucus vesiculosus (here termed Quercus marina).
Plate 6 from the book Thesaurus animalium primus, by Frederick Ruysch (Joannem Wolters, Amsterdam, 1710).
The illustration is inscribed above ‘TAB.VI’. Below: ‘J. Mulder ad vivum Sculp. 1710’.
Frederik Ruysch created a cabinet of curiosities in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 1690s. It contained both human and animal specimens and was renowned for the imaginative presentations which blurred boundaries between science and art. The collection was purchased by Peter the Great of Russia in 1717 and transferred to St Petersburg.
Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731), Dutch botanist and anatomist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1715.
Plate 6 from the book Thesaurus animalium primus, by Frederick Ruysch (Joannem Wolters, Amsterdam, 1710).
The illustration is inscribed above ‘TAB.VI’. Below: ‘J. Mulder ad vivum Sculp. 1710’.
Frederik Ruysch created a cabinet of curiosities in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 1690s. It contained both human and animal specimens and was renowned for the imaginative presentations which blurred boundaries between science and art. The collection was purchased by Peter the Great of Russia in 1717 and transferred to St Petersburg.
Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731), Dutch botanist and anatomist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1715.
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