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Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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    WENCESLAUS HOLLAR (1607-77)

    Tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris L.)

    c.1645

    RCIN 804570

    An etching of two views of a tiger cowrie, Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758 [Cypraeidae; A&D p. 97]. Indo-Pacific, to 90 mm (there is a larger Hawaiian subspecies). Copied in Buonanni, 2.III.231-2, reversed (with no shadow).

    See general notes on 804563.

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