Cuprum oxygenizatum mb-code 00541526 'Hungerford Pier and Footbridge'

'Hungerford Pier and Footbridge'

with a sedan chair at bottom left

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

driving a Jaguar SS100 with a 3

Cuprum oxygenizatum mb-code 00541526 'Hungerford Pier and Footbridge'Specimens 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