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

Part of Set for Castelli's Hyaena Odorifera (Hoffmann)

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  • printing: matrix
  • metal: copper
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  • Civet cat (Catus Zibethicus Americanus; Figura II pag. 27). In Pietro Castelli, De Hyaena Odorifera Exetasis Petri Castelli Romani, Frankfurt am Main: Wolfgang Hoffmann (printer), 1641 (Göttingen, SUB) ◼
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  • Set for Castelli's Hyaena Odorifera (Hoffmann)
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Civet Cat (Hoffmann). Part of Set for Castelli's Hyaena Odorifera (Hoffmann)

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  • ⇥ Workshop of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printmaker), Tab. LXXIII (Hijaena Odorata Africana, Catus Zibethicus Americanus, Mus Aquaticus, Tlaquatzin). Part of Set of illustrations to Jonston's Historia quadrupedum (Merian)
  • ⇤ Civet cat I (Bianco). Part of Set for Castelli's Hyaena Odorifera (Bianco)
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    • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2023-05-15 19:48)

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    • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2024-10-09 09:38)

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