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): 179mm
width (print): 179mm
Subject
Description
Study of display cabinets from the nature theatre of Levinus Vincent. A medley of exhibits, including wet specimens preserved in jars, stuffed birds and human artefacts. Loose specimens are arranged below the cabinets.
Plate 5 from the book Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio Levini Vincent, by Levinus Vincent (Haarlem, 1719).
Inscribed above and within the plate: ‘Pinac 7 Pinac 8 Pinac 9. TAB. V’. The plate has no artist or engraver details.
Accompanying text in Latin and French states that: ‘The seventh cabinet, shown in the fifth plate, is another cabinet filled like the previous one of several glass bottles, and placed on the cabinets no, 8 and 9. It is similar to the fourth cabinet, being of the same height and depth, but not width; it is also divided into five tiers that contain 250 bottles, full of the same liquor as the others, and in which foreign animals and a variety of creatures are preserved, some larger than those of the previous cabinet, are preserved….’
Levinus (or Levin) Vincent (1658-1727) Dutch merchant and collector.
Plate 5 from the book Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio Levini Vincent, by Levinus Vincent (Haarlem, 1719).
Inscribed above and within the plate: ‘Pinac 7 Pinac 8 Pinac 9. TAB. V’. The plate has no artist or engraver details.
Accompanying text in Latin and French states that: ‘The seventh cabinet, shown in the fifth plate, is another cabinet filled like the previous one of several glass bottles, and placed on the cabinets no, 8 and 9. It is similar to the fourth cabinet, being of the same height and depth, but not width; it is also divided into five tiers that contain 250 bottles, full of the same liquor as the others, and in which foreign animals and a variety of creatures are preserved, some larger than those of the previous cabinet, are preserved….’
Levinus (or Levin) Vincent (1658-1727) Dutch merchant and collector.
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