'Cuprum carbonatum' Size:XL: 120 x 60cm August 1980

August 1980

driven by Stig Blomqvist

View of Greenwich Park and the Royal Greenwich Observatory from Park Row

on a rough sea

Interior view of the Guildhall during a royal banquet for Queen Victoria

'Cuprum carbonatum' Size:XL: 120 x 60cm August 1980Two specimens of copper carbonate here termed 'Carbonate of copper' with two details of 'arseniate of copper' for comparison. Plate 94 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 'The present specimen is a very rare and curious modification of carbonate of copper. At present I know of only two specimens;