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

LIX

Artist Albert Seba (German, 1665 - 1736)

Date1734-1755

MediumCopperplate engraving, hand colored, on paper

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Drs. Mark and Rowena Braunstein in honor of her father, Dr. Andrew Sobczyk, University of Florida Professor of Mathematics, 1957-1960

Object number2012.11.8

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionMany different types and colors of gastropod seashell, including conch and murex. Plate 59 from volume III of "Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri," Amsterdam: Wetsten, Smith and Waesberg, 1734-1755.