Cuprum oxygenizatum mb-code 00541526 United Kingdom

United Kingdom

View over the dam of the Serpentine towards the Great Exhibition building of 1851

'Hungerford Pier and Footbridge'

'Too Early'

with a sedan chair at bottom left

Cuprum oxygenizatum mb-code 00541526 United KingdomSpecimens of octahedral cuprite crystals, here termed 'crystallized red oxide of copper'. Plate 53 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R. Taylor & Co., 1804). The accompanying text states that 'Some of the crystallized red oxides of copper deserve from their lustre the appellation of Ruby Coppers The present fin specimen has more of the steel like