impression:T44449

Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)

Things – T44449

Sloth (Ignavi sive Haut Clusii)

In Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Ioannis Evsebii Nierembergii ... Historia Natvrae, Maximae Peregrinae..., Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus (printer), 1635 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 164

p. 164 (12 of 34 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Sloth I (Plantin) (Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus) ◼

Actors

Balthasar Moretus (23 July 1574 - 6 July 1641) printer : 1635

Places

Antwerp production place : 1635

Design

Sloth I (Plantin) (Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus) Part of Set for Clusius's Exoticorum libri (Plantin/Raphelengius) ◼

In-Urus interactions

⇥ Workshop of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printmaker), Tab. LXXIIII (Mapach, Ceropithecus, Ignavii sive Haut Clusii, Ceropithecus Barbatus Clusii, Armadillo) Part of Set of illustrations to Jonston's Historia quadrupedum (Merian) ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Sloth (Bradypus) (Iconclass: 25F29(SLOTH))

Functional context

Nieremberg (Natural history)

References

Web resources

digital copy (MDZ)

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2023-05-26 16:55)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-03-13 10:39)