Portrait Print
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Possibly a portrait of Albertus Seba. He is seated in the bottom center of the print in a large chair. He is pointing a finger on his left hand to a jar on a table beside him. In the background on the right side is an interior of a pharmacy. There is a man in the shop using a mortar and pestle. In the background on the far left there is a large house with gardens and fountain. Note the three containers on the table which have triangular paper labels tied to their necks.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Seba was a pharmacist and collector of natural history objects in Amsterdam . He illustrated a number of his objects for a Thesaurus on the subject. Most of his collection was sold to Czar Arskine of St. Pesters. He was born in Etzel in 1665 and died in Amsterdam in 1736.
label: Description
content: This print, unsigned and uncaptioned, depicts a wealthy and learned man with a fine estate and a large apothecary shop. The subject may be Albertus Seba (1665-1736), a pharmacist and natural historian in Amsterdam famed for his large cabinets of curiosities.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Portraits
label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0064
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-06217
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content: SAP 910
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
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label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.3 cm x 10.2 cm; 6 7/16 in x 4 in
label: Measurements
content: image: 13.9 cm x 8.5 cm; 5 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in