Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

XCIV

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

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PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

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.