impression:T85900

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

Things – T85900

Reindeer (Le Renne)

In Histoire naturelle - nouvelle edition, vol. 15, Amsterdam: Jean Herman Schneider (printer), 1771 (The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Pl. IV

Pl. IV (4 of 5 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Cornelis Pronk (designer?), Petrus Camper (designer attr.), Christian Friedrich Fritzsch (printmaker), Reindeer (Schneider)

Actors

Christian Friedrich Fritzsch (1719 - 1774) printmaker
Cornelis Pronk (10 December 1691 - 28 September 1759/29 September 1759) designer?
Jean Herman Schneider (18th c.) printer : 1771
Petrus Camper (11 May 1722 - 7 April 1789) designer attr.

Places

Amsterdam production place : 1771

Design

Cornelis Pronk (designer?), Petrus Camper (designer attr.), Christian Friedrich Fritzsch (printmaker), Reindeer (Schneider) Part of Set for Histoire naturelle - nouvelle edition (Schneider) ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) (Iconclass: 25F24(REINDEER))

Functional context

Buffon's Histoire naturelle (Natural history)

Inscriptions, Markings and Mentions

Matrix inscriptions

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-02-07 20:02)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-02-07 20:31)