Terra sigillata
Date
1704
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Dimensions
height (page): 221mm
width (page): 167mm
width (page): 167mm
Subject
Content object
Description
This ink, wash and body colour image depicts a terra sigillata, a piece of stone believed to have healing properties. The drawing appears in the third of J. J. Scheuchzer's four manuscript volumes describing his journey through the Alps in the early 18th century.
Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician, who was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703. He was interested in natural history, fossil records and traces of the impact of the Biblical Flood. The Royal Society sponsored the publication of Scheuchzer's description of the Swiss Alps, [Ouresiphoitis] Helveticus, sive itineris alpini, with several Fellows offering subscriptions to defray the cost of the engravings. As was common practice, the printed illustrations bore the name of the subscriber at the bottom of the plate.
Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician, who was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703. He was interested in natural history, fossil records and traces of the impact of the Biblical Flood. The Royal Society sponsored the publication of Scheuchzer's description of the Swiss Alps, [Ouresiphoitis] Helveticus, sive itineris alpini, with several Fellows offering subscriptions to defray the cost of the engravings. As was common practice, the printed illustrations bore the name of the subscriber at the bottom of the plate.
Object history
Printed in Part 3, Tab. 9 from J. J. Scheuchzer, [Ouresiphoitis] Helveticus, sive itineris alpini (London, 1708), fig. 1. (First edition in three parts. A second edition with an additional fourth part was published in Leiden in 1723.)
Related fellows
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 - 1733, Swiss) , Physician
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