Cowries
by Albertus Seba
Title
Cowries
Artist
Albertus Seba
Medium
Painting - Painting
Description
Tiger cowries, Map Cowries, Atlantic deer cowries, Egg Cowries, Mole Cowries, Humback Cowries, Panther Cowrie, Carnelian Cowrie, Onyx Cowrie, Caurica Cowrie, Mouse Cowries -- Cypraea tigrus, Cypraea mappa, Cypraea cervus, Olula ovum, Cypraea, Cypraea talpa, Cypraea maurutanea, Cypraea pantherina, Cypraea carneola, Cypraea onyx, Cypraea curica, Cypracidae, Cypraea mus. Albertus Seba (May 12, 1665, Etzel near Friedeburg – May 2, 1736, Amsterdam) was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector. Seba accumulated one of the largest cabinets of curiosities in the Netherlands during his time. He sold one of his cabinets in 1717 to Peter the Great of Russia. His later collections were auctioned after his death. He published descriptions of his collections in the work Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio.
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