Fossilised wood
Date
1637
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
R64776
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (plate): 234mm
width (plate): 169mm
height (page): 280mm
width (page): 198mm
width (plate): 169mm
height (page): 280mm
width (page): 198mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Four studies of fossilised wood showing wave patterns.
Accompanying text reads ‘They show the variety of the veins, or we mean waves, which are found in several pieces of this wood, sawn and cleaned, thus portrayed from nature, this being done to show the variety of waves, and their beauty.’
Inscribed with the plate number ‘6’ and the individual illustrations posthumously numbered ’11,12,13 and 14.’
Plate 6 to Trattato del Legno Fossile Minerale Nuovamente Scoperto [Treatise of the newly discovered fossilised mineralised wood] by Francesco Stelluti (1637)
Francesco Stelluti (1577-1652), Italian naturalist, was a founding member of the Accademia dei Lincei.
Accompanying text reads ‘They show the variety of the veins, or we mean waves, which are found in several pieces of this wood, sawn and cleaned, thus portrayed from nature, this being done to show the variety of waves, and their beauty.’
Inscribed with the plate number ‘6’ and the individual illustrations posthumously numbered ’11,12,13 and 14.’
Plate 6 to Trattato del Legno Fossile Minerale Nuovamente Scoperto [Treatise of the newly discovered fossilised mineralised wood] by Francesco Stelluti (1637)
Francesco Stelluti (1577-1652), Italian naturalist, was a founding member of the Accademia dei Lincei.
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