Theatre of Nature mixed 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): 183mm
width (print): 183mm
Subject
Description
Study of a display cabinet from the nature theatre of Levinus Vincent. A medley of exhibits, including butterfly specimens arranged in decorative patterns, bird’s eggs, birds of paradise, heads of birds, mammals and other materials in numbered drawers.
Plate 6 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. 10. TAB. VI’. The plate has no artist or engraver details.
Accompanying text in Latin and French states that: ‘The tenth ash grey cabinet, represented in the sixth plate, is six and a half feet high, including the quadrangular base and the feet. It is four and a half feet and a half in width, with a depth 17 inches. It contains thirteen large drawers. The first of the seventh contains various plans and designs of Phrygian works, or of composed embroidery, of thousands of insects, both of this country, and others, and of some other small animals, attached by pins and joined together with so much art that the shadows and all the hues are exactly observed…’
Levinus (or Levin) Vincent (1658-1727) Dutch merchant and collector.
Plate 6 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. 10. TAB. VI’. The plate has no artist or engraver details.
Accompanying text in Latin and French states that: ‘The tenth ash grey cabinet, represented in the sixth plate, is six and a half feet high, including the quadrangular base and the feet. It is four and a half feet and a half in width, with a depth 17 inches. It contains thirteen large drawers. The first of the seventh contains various plans and designs of Phrygian works, or of composed embroidery, of thousands of insects, both of this country, and others, and of some other small animals, attached by pins and joined together with so much art that the shadows and all the hues are exactly observed…’
Levinus (or Levin) Vincent (1658-1727) Dutch merchant and collector.
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