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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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Wild Man captioned as Cercopithecus

In Conrad Gessner, Conr. Gesneri Medici Tigvrini Historiae Animalivm Liber Primvs De quadrupedibus viuiparis... Editio secunda ..., Frankfurt am Main: Robert Cambier (printer), 1620 (Poznań, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka), p. 859

p. 859 (122 of 136 in-Urus figures)
p. 856
p. 862
Details
  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
Matrices
  • Wild Man captioned as Cercopithecus (Froschauer 1551)
Actors
  • Robert Cambier (fl. 1581-1598) printer : 1620
Places
  • Frankfurt am Main production place : 1620
Design

Wild Man captioned as Cercopithecus (Froschauer 1551) Part of Set for Gessner's Historia animalium (Froschauer) ◼

In-Urus interactions
  • ⇥ Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Wild man captioned as Cercopithecus or Barbilias (Tebaldini) (Bologna, Museo di Palazzo Poggi) Part of Set for Aldrovandi's works ◼
  • ⇥ Wild man (Petri) Part of Set for Lykosthenes (Petri) ◼
  • ⇤ Wild man
Expert view
Iconography description
  • Wild men, wild man, wodewose, woodehouse (Iconclass: 31A44411)
Functional context

Gessner's Historia animalium or Icones, or Topsell (Natural history)

Caption

Cercopithecus

Credits
Created by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-07-19 07:05)

Edited by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by
  • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-07-19 07:05)

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