What does "ad nat del et lith" mean?
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by kosmala
What does "ad nat del et lith" mean?
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by Quia
Latin abbreviations! Such fun.
nat could be a few things, but 'Naturalist' is probably the best fit, and 'del et lith' is definitely 'drawn and lithographed' in this context. So it would be 'Drawn and Lithographed by Naturalist A. S. Foord'
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by VVH scientist, admin
Thanks Quia!
Other Latin terms are explained in the help section, and hopefully all of the eventualities are covered. Click on the '?' button in the classifying screen and that will pop up a black box to the left with four tabs: 'Type' 'Keywords' "Tagging' and 'Latin terms'.
Thanks for being so through Kosmala.
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by JANEJ
Are you sure ad nat is not "Drawn from nature" ie. Drawn from the object itself, not from a picture.
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by trosesandler scientist
yes JaneJ you are correct - drawn from nature or drawn from life as opposed to drawn from a surrogate
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by yshish moderator
Good to know!
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