THE WORKS OF MARCGRAV AND PISO. 165 
the province of Pernambuco. Count Moritz availing himself in a like 
manner of his position, procured accounts and natural productions, 
through seafaring men, of the Dutch settlements on the west coast of 
Africa, and of Chile. After a sojourn of seven years he brought home 
the richest collection of natural productions, that had ever been taken 
to Europe by one importation*. 
Very many natural objects, both animals and plants, were painted on 
the spot}. M. Lichtenstein, the distinguished commentator on the 
zoological harvest of the expedition, gives no hint as to the name of 
the painter; nor is it mentioned in any of the written documents. 
It strikes me as probable, that the oil-paintings are by Franz Post, 
son of Johannes, a painter on glass at Harlem, whom the Count sum- 
moned over to Brazilf, and who became known by his numerous 
landscapes in oil, in which he indulged in tropical scenery, and repre- 
sented particular tropical animals and plants$. This artist, as well as 
Piso, returned with the Count to their native country ; but Cralitz died 
soon after arriving in Brazil, and Marcgrav fell in 1644, at the age of 
thirty-four years, the victim of an epidemic fever, at S. Paulo de Loanda 
in Angola, whither he had gone across, in order to continue his astro- 
nomical and natural-historical researches. 
The literary harvest of the expedition was of a threefold PA ri 
1, Marcgrav’s astronomical observations ; 2, his and Piso's other manu- 
script notices, and 3, figures in natural history, partly in oil and partly 
in watercolours. The astronomical portion||, transferred by the Count 
to the Leyden astronomer Golius, was not published, and appears to 
* So ample were these stores, that the cabinet of the Prince, the Museums of two 
oL and several private collections (among others what became subsequently 
Seba’s) were enriched by them; and during more than a century has natural sci- 
ence drawn on them.— Lichtenstein in Trans. of the Academy of Berlin, 1814 and 
1815, p. 202. 
T quaii ea Mm Ma inet psp 
expressas adjunxi." ii. 
ie Coi pate Fuessli, TI. p. 1145. S. Post was born at Harlem in 1624, and 
xtd ure sewer cs 
o this masi 
the Royal Gallery of Paintings at Schleissheim, sonic eet at Munich (Cat. n. 1510 
and 1512). In my ‘Historia Palmarum,’ tab. 84 and 95, part of that scenery has 
been repeated. Barleus has likewise many landscapes and marine representations 
with the name Fr. Post (not Poost) attached, mostly of the year 16458. . 
|| Said to have — a description of the constellations of the southern he- 
