Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico1900] Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber)
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[T78034]Jacques de Sève (draughtsman), Beaver. Part of Figures pour l'histoire des quadrupèdes, par M. de Buffon, vol. III (Paris, BnF). Part of Drawings for Buffon's Histoire naturelle ◼drawinginserted piecepaperpreparatory model17551755‑01‑011755‑12‑31
[T77587]Beaver (Kia Wei). Part of Collection des animaux de la Chine (Paris, BnF) ◼drawingwatercolourpaper
[T56631]Beaver (Bobr). In Jan Gawiński, Fortuna albo szczeście, Cracow: Michał Józef Antoni Dyaszewski (printer), 1744 (Warsaw, BN), fol. H2v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T78724]Johann Elias Ridinger (designer, printmaker), Beaver (Die Biber haben 2. bis 3. Iunge). In Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Johann Elias Ridinger, Betrachtung der wilden Thiere mit beygefügter vortrefflicher Poesie des hochberühmten Herrn Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Augsburg: Johann Elias Ridinger (printer), 1736 (Göttingen, SUB), 27 ◼printing: impressionetchingpaper
[T83566]Beaver's Paws and Beaver. In Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch, Bilderbuch für Kinder: enthaltend eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Früchten, Mineralien ... vol. 1, Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir zu Weimar (printer), 1792 (Halle (Saale), ULB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82928]Beaver, Hedgehog and Porcupine. In Noël-Antoine Pluche, Le Spectacle De La Nature ... Contenant ce qui regarde les animaux & les plantes, The Hague: 1743 (Berlin, SBB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T65060]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber). In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1558, p. 198 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5160]Conrad Schnitt (printmaker), Beaver or Musk Rat (Bißem thier). In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia. Bschreibung aller Lender..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1544 (Munich, BSB), p. dcxxxv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5242]Conrad Schnitt (printmaker), Beaver (for Castoreum). In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographiae uniuersalis Lib. VI in quibus, iuxta certiores fidei scriptorum ..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), January 1550 - March 1550 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart), p. 1043 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83166]Beaver (Castor). In Gart der gesundheit Zu latein Hortvs Sanitatis ..., Johannes de Cuba (compiler), Strasbourg: Matthias Apiarius (printer), 1536 (Munich, BSB), fol. XVr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83162]Johann Elias Ridinger (designer, printmaker), Beaver (Der Biber in seiner Ruhe). In Johann Elias Ridinger, Entwurf einiger Thiere ... nach dem Leben gezeichnet, samt beygefügten Anmerkungen ... Fünffter Theil, Augsburg: Johann Elias Ridinger (publisher), 1740 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82991]Jan (II) Tons (draughtsman), Over Door Tapestry with the Arms of Poland on landscape background with Beaver and Porcupine (Cracow, Wawel Royal Castle). Part of Jagiellonian tapestries (the Wawel Arrasses) ◼craftstextile: silk250010951550 ‑ 15601550‑01‑011560‑12‑31
[T49435]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber). In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli medici Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore (var. B), Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1554 (Vienna, ÖNB), p. 176 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9079]Eurasian Beaver. In Pierre Belon, Petri Bellonii Cenomani De aquatilibus Libri duo ..., Paris: Charles Estienne (printer), 1553 (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library), p. 30 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T51031]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Eurasian Beaver (Castor). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedib[us] Digitatis Viviparis Libri Tres ..., Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), Marco Antonio Bernia (publisher), Bartolomeo Ambrosini (publisher), 1645 (Warsaw, BN), p. 279 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T41523]Eurasian Beaver (Castor). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri Medici Tigvrini Historiae Animalivm Liber Primvs De quadrupedibus viuiparis... Editio secunda ..., Frankfurt am Main: Robert Cambier (printer), 1602 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 309 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T44971]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber, Biber). In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. XXIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46213]Eurasian Beaver. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 84 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T2302]Eurasian Beaver (Castor). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle (Saale), ULB), p. 336 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82980]François-Nicolas Martinet (designer), Robert Bénard (printmaker), Beaver and Porcupine. In Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts mechaniques, Paris: 1768 (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine), Pl. XIII ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration