impression:T96166

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

Things – T96166

Crayfish Attacked by a Sea Monster

In Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Liber IIII: qui est de Piscium & Aquatilium animantium natura, Zürich: Christoph (I) Froschauer (printer), 1558 (Warsaw, BN), p. 118

p. 118 (10 of 49 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Monogrammist FO (blockcutter), Crayfish Attacked by a Sea Monster (Froschauer)

Actors

Christoph (I) Froschauer (ca 1490 - 1 April 1564) printer : 1558
Monogrammist FO (16th c. / fl. 1550 - 1570) blockcutter

Places

Zürich production place : 1558

Design

Monogrammist FO (blockcutter), Crayfish Attacked by a Sea Monster (Froschauer) Part of Set for Gessner's Historia animalium (Froschauer) ◼

In-Urus interactions

⇤ Olaus Magnus (designer), Giovanni Tommaso (printmaker), Carta marina et descriptio septemtrionalium terrarum (nine woodblocks) ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Functional context

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

Inscriptions, Markings and Mentions

Matrix inscriptions

FO

References

Web resources

digital copy (Polona)

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-09-13 14:19)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-09-13 14:23)