impression:T96185

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

Things – T96185

Willow Ptarmigan (?)

In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri ... Historiae animalium liber III., qui est de avium natura, Zürich: Christoph (I) Froschauer (printer), 1555 (Zürich, ZB), p. 775

p. 775 (20 of 20 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Monogrammist FO (blockcutter), Willow Ptarmigan (Froschauer)

Actors

Christoph (I) Froschauer (ca 1490 - 1 April 1564) printer : 1555
Monogrammist FO (16th c. / fl. 1550 - 1570) blockcutter

Places

Zürich production place : 1555

Design

Monogrammist FO (blockcutter), Willow Ptarmigan (Froschauer) Part of Set for Gessner's Historia animalium (Froschauer) ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus)

Functional context

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

Inscriptions, Markings and Mentions

Matrix inscriptions

FO

References

Web resources

digital copy (e-rara)

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-09-13 15:33)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-09-13 15:33)