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LORFORDS ANTIQUES

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Item Details

Set of ten original 18th Century Dutch monochrome engravings of Seashells by Georg Eberard Rumphius from "Thesaurus Imaginum Piscium Testaceorum".

Presented in hand decorated silver-gilt/mirrored frames.

Rumphius was employed by the Dutch East India Company and spent the greater part of his life on the Island of Ambon, (part of present day Indonesia) a small but important trading centre. A brilliant field naturalist Rumphius was far ahead of his time in terms of accurate recording of all aspects of local ecology.

Circa 1750.

• Period:
• Sold
• Location: Gloucestershire
• • Dimensions: H: 49cm (19.29in)
  • W: 37cm (14.57in)
  • D: 2cm (0.79in)