impression:T96170

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

Things – T96170

Balaena cum adiuncta orca

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. 137

p. 137 (12 of 49 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Monogrammist FO (blockcutter), Whale (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), Whale (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

Whale (Balaena) (Iconclass: 25FF27(WHALE))

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 14:28)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-09-13 14:38)