Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13830

    Theatre of Nature mixed cabinets

    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): 190mm
    Subject
    Description
    Study of the display cabinet from the nature theatre of Levinus Vincent. A medley of exhibits, including wet specimens preserved in jars above, presses containing large volumes, including herbaria, and drawers with stuffed birds. Loose specimens are arranged below the cabinets.

    Plate 4 from the book Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio Levini Vincent, by Levinus Vincent (Haarlem, 1719).

    Inscribed above: ‘Pinac. 4. TAB. IV’. The plate has no artist or engraver details.

    Accompanying text in Latin and French states that: ‘The fourth cabinet is shown in the fourth plate, but is now much larger. It is the first and the largest cabinet, filled with glass bottles, and these placed on top of cabinets no. 5 and 6. It is fourteen feet and seven inches wide; five feet and four inches high; and thirteen inches deep. It is in five stages, each proportionate to the size of the glasses on them, the first of fifteen inches ... it now contains 400 bottles of very fine glass, filled with a liquor in which diverse sorts of animals and creatures are preserved in their entirety, all with their innards…’

    Levinus (or Levin) Vincent (1658-1727) Dutch merchant and collector.
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