Pair of framed Seba Shell Prints (32x27 each)
Pair of framed Seba Shell Prints (32x27 each)
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (pair)
Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio et Iconibus Artificiosissimis Expressio, Per Universam Physices Historiam
Albertus Seba
Amsterdam, 1734
Hand-colored engravings
Size: 22 x 17 (art) 31.5 x 27 each (framed)
Price $10,000 (C4246)
Albertus Seba was a wealthy 18th Dutch apothecary and member of the Dutch East India Company, whose first collection of natural history “curiosities” was purchased by Peter the Great for his Kunstkammer museum. Actual specimens from Seba’s cabinet of curiosities are still in collections in St. Petersburg, and in natural history museums around the world.
Description: Dutch handcolored engravings of shells from the monumental natural history work, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, by Albertus Seba (1695-1736), published in 1734. Archivally framed in olive ash burl veneer frames with hand mat decoration. WIDTH: 311⁄2 in | HEIGHT: 27 THE NETHERLANDS CIRCA 1734 18TH CENTURY CONDITION - EXCELLENT
