Theatre of Nature insect cabinet
Date
1719
Creator
[?] Jan van Vianen (1660 - 1726, Dutch) , Draughtsman
After
Romeyn de Hooghe (1645 - 1708, Dutch) , [?]
Object type
Library reference
RCNR65067
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 247mm
width (print): 196mm
width (print): 196mm
Subject
Description
Study of the insect cabinet from the nature theatre of Levinus Vincent. The cabinet drawers are numbered and below them are ranged three open specimen drawers, with individual larger beetles and a locust.
Plate 1 from the book Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio Levini Vincent, by Levinus Vincent (Haarlem, 1719).
Inscribed above: ‘Pinacoteca 1. TAB. I’. The plate has no artist or engraver details.
Accompanying text in Latin and French states that: ‘The first cabinet, which the first plate shows open, is placed on a single base, and is of an Indian black varnish, adorned with raised gilding. It is five feet and one inch tall and equally wide. It has three rows, each with twenty drawers…’.
Levinus (or Levin) Vincent (1658-1727) Dutch merchant and collector.
Plate 1 from the book Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio Levini Vincent, by Levinus Vincent (Haarlem, 1719).
Inscribed above: ‘Pinacoteca 1. TAB. I’. The plate has no artist or engraver details.
Accompanying text in Latin and French states that: ‘The first cabinet, which the first plate shows open, is placed on a single base, and is of an Indian black varnish, adorned with raised gilding. It is five feet and one inch tall and equally wide. It has three rows, each with twenty drawers…’.
Levinus (or Levin) Vincent (1658-1727) Dutch merchant and collector.
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