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

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. 493

p. 493 (63 of 136 in-Urus figures)
p. 491
p. 549
Details
  • printing: impression
  • woodcut
  • paper
  • page: figure
  • book decoration: illustration
Matrices
  • Hippopotamus Biting Crocodile (Froschauer 1558)
Actors
  • Robert Cambier (fl. 1581-1598) printer : 1620
Places
  • Frankfurt am Main production place : 1620
Design

Hippopotamus Biting Crocodile (Froschauer 1558) Part of Set for Gessner's Historia animalium (Froschauer) ◼

In-Urus interactions
  • ⇥ Hippopotamus (Luchtmans) Part of Set of Spyck's plates with animals ◼
  • ⇥ Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Hippopotamus Biting Crocodile (Tebaldini) (Bologna, Museo di Palazzo Poggi) Part of Set for Aldrovandi's works ◼
  • ⇥ Hippopotamus Biting Crocodile (Jaggard) Part of Set for Topsell's History of four-footed beasts ◼
  • ⇤ Hippopotamus Biting Crocodile (Chaudière; Estienne) Part of Set for Belon's De aquatilibus ◼
Expert view
Iconography description
  • Crocodile (Iconclass: 25F43(CROCODILE))
  • Fighting animals (Iconclass: 25F(+51))
  • Hippopotamus (Iconclass: 25F24(HIPPOPOTAMUS))
Functional context

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

Caption

Hippopotamus

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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