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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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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, on paper
Dimensionsneed dims
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Terry White
Object number2011.69.2
Collections
Visual DescriptionTen 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. Plate 36 from Volume I of "Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri," Amsterdam: Wetsten, Smith and Waesberg, 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
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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
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
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
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 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
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
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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Albert Seba
1734-1755
Thirteen taxonomic illustrations of various plants and animals. Eleven illustrations depict scorpions of various sizes and from various regions, including Brazil, Ceylon, Suriname, Guinea, the Netherlands, and Italy. Also depicted are a brown and white Indonesian viper and a branch with yellow flowers from an Indian acacia tree.
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Albert Seba
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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
Many types of shells and aquatic plants, including barnacles, sea acorns, piddocks, and sea plants.
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Albert Seba
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A white armadillo surrounded by botanical drawings of various plants with green leaves and flowers that are either yellow, white, or pink; a hornet/yellowjacket perches on one plant. Plate 29 from volume I of "Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri," Amsterdam: Wetsten, Smith and Waesberg, 1734-1755.
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Albert Seba
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