Albertus Seba
These images are taken from Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, one of the 18th Century's greatest natural history achievements and even today it remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time.
Seba's amazing collection of animals, plants and insects from all around the world gained him international fame during his lifetime.
In 1731, after decades of collecting, he commissioned illustrations of each and every specimen and arranged the publication of a four-volume catalogue detailing his entire collection from strange and exotic plants to snakes, frogs, crocodiles, shellfish, corals, insects, butterflies and more, as well as fantastic beasts such as a seven-headed hydra.
The beautiful illustrations transport these creatures from the scientific worlds of specimens into extremely aesthetic and vivid scenes where plants and animals intermingle.
Sets by Albertus Seba
