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Malachite Collection

Background imageMalachite Collection: Plate 7a from Histoire naturelle? (1789)

Plate 7a from Histoire naturelle? (1789)
Plate 7a, Mineralogie [unfinished] from Histoire naturelle: ou, Exposition des morceaux, les mieux choisis pour servir? (1789) by by Swebach Desfontaines

Background imageMalachite Collection: Rocks, Copper

Rocks, Copper
Native copper, cuprite, azurite (blue oxide of copper), malachite, copper pyrites, peacock copper

Background imageMalachite Collection: Malachite beetle, net winged beetle, etc

Malachite beetle, net winged beetle, etc
Malachite beetle, Malachius bipustulatus 1, net-winged beetles, Lycus melanurus 2, Lycus punctatus 3, Saperda punctata 4, Saperda species 5, Trichodes octopunctatus 6 and Trichodes apiarius 7

Background imageMalachite Collection: Rove and chafer beetles

Rove and chafer beetles
Lampyris beetle, rove beetle, Staphylinus erythropterus 2, Staphylinus species 3, Ampedus sanguineus 4, Silpha pedemonta 5, Temnoscheila virescens 6, and rose chafer, Cetonia aurata 7

Background imageMalachite Collection: Red helen and malachite butterfly, Papilio

Red helen and malachite butterfly, Papilio helenus, Siproeta stelenes (Papilio helenus and Papilio steneles). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Background imageMalachite Collection: Varieties of copper, coppernickel and malachite ores

Varieties of copper, coppernickel and malachite ores. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur

Background imageMalachite Collection: Precious metals including gold, silver, copper and tin

Precious metals including gold, silver, copper and tin
Precious metals including gold 1, silver 2, 3, copper dendrite 4, blue copper 5, malachite copper 6, garnet tin 7, tin crystal 8, and tin sand 9

Background imageMalachite Collection: Advert for Asprey Mexican onyx articles 1937

Advert for Asprey Mexican onyx articles 1937
A selection of solid Mexican onyx articles, inlaid with malachite, Canadian lapis, aventurine and coral, including a number of special Coronation pieces. Date: 1937

Background imageMalachite Collection: Malachite sunbird or shining creeper, Nectarinia

Malachite sunbird or shining creeper, Nectarinia famosa, native to South Africa.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Background imageMalachite Collection: Crested or Malachite kingfisher, Alcedo cristata

Crested or Malachite kingfisher, Alcedo cristata.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Background imageMalachite Collection: Siproeta stelenes, Malachite butterfly

Siproeta stelenes, Malachite butterfly
The malachite butterfly is named for the mineral malachite, which is similar in color to the bright green of the butterflys wings. It is found throughout the Southern United States to Brazil

Background imageMalachite Collection: Malachite

Malachite
An Octagonal column of the mineral malachite. Malachite is a green mineral, (copper carbonate hydroxide), and is often used as a semi-precious stone

Background imageMalachite Collection: Malachite cameo

Malachite cameo and malachite-chrysocolla mass. Malachite (copper carbonate hydroxide), has a distinctive green banding and belongs to the carbonate class


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