narrative:N319

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

Narratives – N319

Hippopotamus

Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis historia, VIII, 39, 95

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Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 - 25 August 79) author

In-Urus interactions

⇥ John Caius (draughtsman), Hippopotamus after Pliny and Solinus, by Caius (Hippopotamus Caius ad descript. Plinii & Solini finxit). In Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter (so-called Gessner Albums), vol. 2 (Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Special Collections), fol. 65 ◼

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