Albertus Seba, Etzela Oostfrisius
from Albertus Seba: Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri accurata Descriptio
Amsterdam: 1734-1765
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Portrait frontispiece of Dutch apothecary and collector Albertus Seba from his four-volume book about his collection. He is posed in his study, holding up a glass jar containing a snake specimen and gesturing toward a table on which is propped an open book of natural history drawings and shells from his collection.