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Artist
Albert Seba
(German, 1665 - 1736)
Date1734-1755
MediumCopperplate engraving, hand colored, on paper
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Ben M. Carter in honor of Enrique R. Anderson (Class of '95) and Family
Object number2014.29.16
DescriptionTaxonomic 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. Plate 33 from Volume 1 of "Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri," Amsterdam: Wetsten, Smith and Waesberg, 1734-1755.
