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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
Things – T78691

Animals of the Hercynian Forest (Ursus, Bos Gallicus sive Bisons and Alces)

In C. Julii Caesaris quae extant, London: Jacob (I) Tonson (publisher), [before 6 April] 1712 (San Fernando, Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada), no 42

no 42 (62 of 135 in-Urus figures)
no 41
no 43
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  • London production place : [by mid-March] 1712
Design

Animals of the Hercynian Forest (Tonson) Part of Set of plates for Caesar's Commentarii in folio (Tonson 1712) ◼

In-Urus interactions
Iconography description
Narrative

Aurochs of the Hercynian Forest (Commentarii de bello Gallico, VI, 28)

Functional context

Corpus Caesarianum (Cosmographies, chorographies and chronicles)