Casse, du

Prints by du Casse, published in 1833 and 1834, pair the illustration of mining with the description of nature. The mining p...

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Prints by du Casse, published in 1833 and 1834, pair the illustration of mining with the description of nature. The mining plates include sections through mineral veins and views of the mines at Dannemora in Sweden and Clausthal in the Harz mountains, explaining the workings below ground as well as showing the sites above it. The natural-history plates combine unlikely companions in the manner of illustrated reference works: a flower fly with microscopic shells, yarrow and St John’s wort, or a filefish with a monitor lizard and a flowering plant.

Prints by du Casse, published in 1833 and 1834, pair the illustration of mining with the description of nature. The mining plates include sections through mineral veins and views of the mines at Dannemora in Sweden and Clausthal in the Harz mountains, explaining the workings below ground as well as showing the sites above it. The natural-history plates combine unlikely companions in the manner of illustrated reference works: a flower fly with microscopic shells, yarrow and St John’s wort, or a filefish with a monitor lizard and a flowering plant.

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