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Cabinet - Sources

Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
Image for Plate of ‘BACCIFERÆ EDULES & NON EDULES SCANDENTES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 1, Tab. 1) sponsored by Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland (1619-1682).
Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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Saami man
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Drawing of a warehouse
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Michelangelo, Vestibule to the Laurentian Library (1559)
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Introduction
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Drawing of mountains
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Ferrante Imperato, 1599
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Telegrams
Photo Album 1979 – 1982
Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
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Carried into exile
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Jacob Bobart the Elder (c.1599-1680)
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Saami cradle
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
Image for Printed illustration struck from a copper plate engraved by Frederick Hendrick van Hove and published in Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 14, Tab. 2)
Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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De aliis quibusdam Instrumentis nostris
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BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
Image for BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.60. [Obverse]
​Boats on the Torne river
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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New plants, new medicines: tobacco
Image for Tobacco Plant, from Nicolas Monardes' Historia medicinal (1574)
Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 19, 1915
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Anatomical engravings
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