Oder Gallery

Mushroom coral species

Mushroom coral species: Amaranthus saxeus 1, Meandrina meandrites 2, Eschara retiformis 3, and Fungia fungites 4. (Amaranthus saxeus, Madrepora meandrites, Eschara retiformis, Madrepora fungites). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities. Date:

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Sea fans or Alcyonacea species

Coral sea fan, Alcyonacea species, Corallium acarbarium nigrum ramosum 1, sea fan, Keratophyton crusta muricata 2, soft coral covered in stony coral 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Johann Christoph Keller from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg. Date:

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King bird-of-paradise, Cicinnurus regius

King bird-of-paradise, Cicinnurus regius, and two Suriname hummingbird species. (Le petit oiseau de Paradis, Paradisea regia, deux colibris de Surinam.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Leitner jun. after an illustration by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Bird of paradise specimen from Johann Philipp Breyn's museum and hummingbirds from Museo Societatis physicae gedanensis. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans