impression:T81104

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Things – T81104

Animals of the Hercynian Forest

(London, BM)

Details

printing: impression
etching
paper
extracted piece
sheet h: 452 mm
sheet w: 525 mm

Matrices

Cornelis Huyberts (printmaker), Animals of the Hercynian Forest (state II/IV) (Tonson)

Actors

Cornelis Huyberts (ca 1669 - buried 11 August 1709) printmaker : November 1704 - July 1709
Frederick I of Prussia (11 July 1657 - 25 February 1713) dedicatee

Places

London, British Museum (1857,0214.436) storage place

Design

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

In-Urus interactions

Expert view

Iconography description

Narrative

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

Functional context

Corpus Caesarianum (Cosmographies, chorographies and chronicles)

Inscriptions, Markings and Mentions

Matrix inscriptions

References

Web resources

digital copy (BM)

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2024-09-05 17:41)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-02-02 16:40)