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Hardcover Natter's Museum Britannicum: British Gem Collections and Collectors of the Mid-Eighteenth Century Book

ISBN: 1784917273

ISBN13: 9781784917272

Natter's Museum Britannicum: British Gem Collections and Collectors of the Mid-Eighteenth Century

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The German gem-engraver, medallist, and amateur scholar Lorenz Natter (1705-1763), was so impressed by the size and quality of the collections of ancient and later engraved gems which he found in Britain that he proposed the publication of an extraordinarily ambitious catalogue - Museum Britannicum - which would present engravings and descriptions of the most important pieces. He made considerable progress to this end, producing several hundred drawings,...

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