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Cabinet - Sources

Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen (1606/1608)
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Чемодан (Казахстан)
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Selden End, 1634-7
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Drawing of mountains
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Tombstone (Uzbekistan)
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (A)
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Trumpet
Drawing of a warehouse
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The Settala Collection, 1666
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Советская пиала (Узбекистан)
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Ecclesiastical territories: the palace of the prince-bishop of Würzburg
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Morisonian Herbarium
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Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640)
Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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‘Croat Woman in the Agram Market’
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Drawing of a clothes shop
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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