Theatre of Nature marine 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): 187mm
width (print): 187mm
Subject
Description
Study of the marine cabinet from the nature theatre of Levinus Vincent. The drawers are numbered. Below them are ranged three open specimen drawers containing shells, with a variety of individual crustaceans, starfish and other creatures.
Plate 2 from the book Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio Levini Vincent, by Levinus Vincent (Haarlem, 1719).
Inscribed above: ‘Pinac. 2. TAB. II’. The plate has no artist or engraver details.
Accompanying text in Latin and French states that: ‘The second cabinet, represented in the second plate, is similar to the first, but it contains five rows: three at the top and two at the bottom, and below that one large drawer…’
Levinus (or Levin) Vincent (1658-1727) Dutch merchant and collector.
Plate 2 from the book Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio Levini Vincent, by Levinus Vincent (Haarlem, 1719).
Inscribed above: ‘Pinac. 2. TAB. II’. The plate has no artist or engraver details.
Accompanying text in Latin and French states that: ‘The second cabinet, represented in the second plate, is similar to the first, but it contains five rows: three at the top and two at the bottom, and below that one large drawer…’
Levinus (or Levin) Vincent (1658-1727) Dutch merchant and collector.
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