File:Cinnabar From Almaden, Spain 1811.jpg
Cinnabar from Almaden, Spain
Hand-colored copper-plate engraving (1811) depicting actual-size a 3.7-inch specimen in the collection of the Royal Institute, donated by I. G. Children. Published as Plate 18, Volume 1, of Sowerby's Exotic Mineralogy
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James Sowerby
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