Long-Eared Bats & Snake, Plate 56
Long-Eared Bats & Snake, Plate 56 — Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri, Vol. I · Albertus Seba · 1734.
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This print
Where it works
Plate 56 from Seba is a page of bats — three brown long-eared bats with wings spread or hanging from a branch — over a purple-and-yellow spotted snake on a green bank, on aged cream. For a study or library on olive or ochre walls at 16×24 in black.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Antique natural-history plate
- Era
- 1734–1765 (Seba)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- chocolate brown, purple, olive, cream
- Mood
- moody, scholarly
- Rooms
- study or library, hallway or entryway
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The label ground is its own mat: a slim black or natural wood frame, no extra mat.
Pairing. Hangs alone or as a matched pair; three or more prints are 10% off.
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The full-bleed edition
The same plate printed edge-to-edge, filling the whole sheet — bold and immersive.
