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Nine taxonomic illustrations of snakes and lizards from various places. At the top, an Indonesian lizard with red and black bands faces a Sri Lankan lizard with a yellow crest. At the bottom, two Sri Lankan lizards of black and white face each other, with a skeleton of an American lizard between them. In the center, a green snake and an orange snake from Sri Lanka are depicted next to a diagram of a snake egg and a reclining lizard.
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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

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Artist Albert Seba (German, 1665 - 1736)
Date1734-1755
MediumCopperplate engraving, hand colored
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Ben M. Carter in honor of Enrique R. Anderson (Class of '95) and Family
Object number2014.29.15
Collections
Visual DescriptionNine taxonomic illustrations of snakes and lizards from various places. At the top, an Indonesian lizard with red and black bands faces a Sri Lankan lizard with a yellow crest. At the bottom, two Sri Lankan lizards of black and white face each other, with a skeleton of an American lizard between them. In the center, a green snake and an orange snake from Sri Lanka are depicted next to a diagram of a snake egg and a reclining lizard. Plate 94 from Volume I of "Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri," Amsterdam: Wetsten, Smith and Waesberg, 1734-1755.
Eight taxonomic illustrations of animals from various continents. At the top, an orange, green, and yellow Sri Lankan curls its body. Below are depicted a green and yellow Sri Lankan lizard, two Indonesian salamanders of blue, yellow, and red, a black and white American snake, a black and white African snake, a yellow American salamander, and a gray American toad.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Taxonomic illustrations of six plants and animals. At the top, a brown American monkey and a brown three-toed sloth rest amid branches from the Japanese camphor laurel tree. Below them lie two yellow and brown snakes from Sri Lanka. At the bottom left, a young, hairless Sri Lankan two-toed sloth climbs another camphor laurel branch.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Taxonomic illustrations of five animals. Four iguanas face each other, arranged in a square. At the top left and bottom right, the male and female of a pair of American iguanas with brown and blue bodies. At the top right and bottom left, the male and female of a pair of Asian iguanas with blue and gray bodies. In the center, a brown, yellow, and green Sri Lankan snake.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Four drawings of animals. In the center, a Sri Lankan armadillo casts a shadow below. Above the armadillo is a blue and yellow African viper and a brown African grass snake. Both snakes curl and entwine their bodies. Below the armadillo is a brown and white African grass snake, which stretches its body across the composition. Plate 54 from Volume I of "Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri," Amsterdam: Wetsten, Smith and Waesberg, 1734-1755.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Drawings of ten plants and animals. In the central, a brown and gray limbless lizard of the genus Acontias from Saint Croix. Surrounding the lizard are five common snakes from America and Suriname, of various shades of red, yellow, and black. Arranged symmetrically are two leaves from an American maidenhead fern and two from an African maidenhead fern.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Four lizards, one gray, one yellow with patterns along its back, one blue and white, one yellow-orange with a brown head, and two plants with green leaves.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Eight taxonomic illustrations of plants and animals from the Americas. In the center, three snakes intertwine their bodies. They include a green spotted snake, a yellow and white striped water snake, and a brown and white banded water snake. Beneath them is a green frog from Suriname. To their left and right lie two aquatic plants of green and yellow. At the top of the composition, one yellow and one red bird from Mexico fly and face each other. Plate 70 from Volume II of "Locupletissimi Rerum N…
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Taxonomic illustrations of eight animals and plants from the Americas. At the top are a brown and yellow snake from Mexico and a pair of spotted black and white snakes from Brazil. Below these snakes are two brown branches from American shrubs and three snakes with diamond patterning from Mexico.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Ten taxonomic illustrations of plants and animals. In the center is an American snake, surrounded by four opossums, one of which houses several of her young in her pouch. Other drawings include a Brazilian red, yellow, and blue bird and four branches from American and Brazilian plants.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Four taxonomic illustrations of animals. In the center, a brown and yellow Asian porcupine. In the top left, a detail of the porcupine's black and white tail. Also depicted are a black and white Asian bird of paradise and a small red American snake.
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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Globular bottle with a small flattened base, with wide curved bottom, wall rises with gradual curve into neck of bottle, tall with outward slope 2 handles near base of neck, steps motif with hole cut through wall covered with small pills, interspersed with small raised images of birds and fish (?) large applied lizard image on one side, legs spread, head towards top, with 2 snakes on opposite side, one headed up, the other down.
Bottle with Lizard and Snakes in Relief
Chimu Artist
1200-1476
Small pot with spherical bottom, 2 lizard forms attached to wall with heads at rim and trails trailing down, two triangles formed of double rows of attached clay pills between lizards.
Legless Pot with iguana appliqué
Costa Rican Artist
300 BCE-300 CE

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