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Engraved plate showing numbered rock and fossil specimens in rows, with a coat of arms cartouche at lower right, on cream paper.

Engraved plate of natural objects, Tab. VIII, 1677 natural history illustration

An engraved plate with numbered figures of natural specimens: a heart-shaped stone, a pitted nodule, a small smooth stone, a columnar fossil, a fossil foot-shaped form, a cylindrical stone, a disc, a banded stone, a cut sliced form, and two crystals. A decorative cartouche with a coat of arms appears at lower right. Hatched line engraving on cream paper.

Artist
Robert Plot
Date
1677
Medium
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2452 × 4000 px
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)