impression:T96173

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

Things – T96173

Nautae in Dorsa Cetorum, quae insulas putant, anchoras figentes saepe periclitantur

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. 138

p. 138 (15 of 49 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Monogrammist FO (blockcutter), Nautae in Dorsa Cetorum, quae insulas putant, anchoras figentes saepe periclitantur (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), Nautae in Dorsa Cetorum, quae insulas putant, anchoras figentes saepe periclitantur (Froschauer) Part of Set for Gessner's Historia animalium (Froschauer) ◼

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 14:39)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-09-13 14:46)