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Details of ten samples of petrified wood, in various colors including brown, blue, purple, green, red, and yellow.
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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
Dimensionsneed dims
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Dr. Ron Rapuano
Object number2011.55
Collections
Visual DescriptionDetails of ten samples of petrified wood, in various colors including brown, blue, purple, green, red, and yellow. Plate 108 from volume IV of "Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri," Amsterdam: Wetsten, Smith and Waesberg, 1734-1755.
Many different samples of minerals and materials; a carved and engraved bowl at the center with the high relief of a man mining materials
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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
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Albert Seba
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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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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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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
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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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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
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
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Many different types and colors of mice/rats, both adults and babies; mouse skeleton; one bird in the top right corner with long blue beak, red, yellow, and gray body, and long red tail, standing on a tree branch.
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Albert Seba
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Many different types and colors of gastropod seashell, including conch and murex.
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Albert Seba
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Many different types and colors of gastropod seashells.
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Albert Seba
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