Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico1777] Elephant
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T16836] Antonio Lafreri (print publisher), Wild Animals, from antique wall paintings, plate III (New York, The Met) ◼ printing: impression single piece engraving paper 1547 ‑ 1572 1547‑01‑01 1572‑12‑31
[T68265] Monogrammist PTC (draughtsman), Elephant. Part of Album originally containing 167 drawings of quadrupeds (London, BM) ◼ drawing pen paper 26 September 1610 1610‑09‑26 1610‑09‑26
[T11289] Hans (II) Holbein (designer?), Sebastian Münster (designer attr.), Conrad Schnitt (blockcutter attr.), Typus Cosmographicus Universalis. In Simon Grynaeus, Novvs Orbis Regionvm Ac Insvlarvm Veteribvs Incognitarvm ..., Basel: Johann (I) Herwagen (printer), 1532 (Augsburg, SSB) ◼ printing: impression inserted piece woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T19619] Elephant. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου καὶ λογιωτάτου κυρίου Μανουήλου τοῦ Φιλῆ... (Harvard, 1565), manuscript (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library), fol. 27r drawing page: figure pen, washes parchment: vellum book decoration: illustration
[T48136] Elephant. In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. LXXIVv ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T6765] Elephant. In Conrad Lykosthenes, Wunderwerck Oder Gottes vnergründtliches vorbilden ..., Johannes Herold (translator), Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1557 (Munich, BSB), p. xviii ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T46107] Elephant. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 61 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T41507] Elephant. In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri Medici Tigvrini Historiae Animalivm Liber Primvs De quadrupedibus viuiparis... Editio secunda ..., Frankfurt am Main: Robert Cambier (printer), 1602 (Washington, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 377 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T5158] Elephant. In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia. Bschreibung aller Lender..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1544 (Munich, BSB), fol. dclviii ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T64889] Elephant (Elephas). In Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1558, p. 215 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T49498] Elephant (Elephas). In 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. 192 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut, hand colouring paper book decoration: illustration
[T64040] Title Page - Man with several four-legged animals in a safety net. In Animalium Quadrupedum Omnis Generis Verae et Artificiosissimae Delineationes, Antwerp: Eduard van Hoeswinckel (printer), 1583 (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) ◼ printing: impression page: figure engraving paper book decoration: title page
[T5477] Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Elephant (Elphas). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedibvs Solidipedibvs ..., Bologna: Vittorio Benacci (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1616 (Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), p. 465 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T9068] Elephant. In Ambroise Paré, Les Oevvres d’Ambroise Paré ..., Paris: Gabriel Buon (printer), 1579 (Paris, Bibliothèques d'Université Paris Cité - Bibliothèque numérique Medica), p. IXcXCII ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T9051] Elephant. In Ambroise Paré, Discours D'Ambroise Pare ... asçavoir, De La Mvmie, Des Venins, De La Licorne Et De La Peste ..., Paris: Gabriel Buon (printer), 1582 (Paris, BnF), fol. 23r ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T62858] Elephant. In Jakub Kazimierz Haur, Skład Abo Skarbiec Znakomitych Sekretow Oekonomiey Ziemianskiey ..., Cracow: Mikołaj Aleksander Schedel (printer), 1693 (Warsaw, BN), p. 320 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T58210] Fight between a Rhinoceros and an Elephant. In André Thevet, Les singvlaritez de la France antarctiqve, avtrement nommée Amerique ..., Paris: Heirs of Maurice de La Porte (printer), 1557 (Washington, Library of Congress), fol. 41r ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T58156] Elephant Plough. In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia. Bschreibung aller Lender..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1544 (Munich, BSB), p. dcxxvi ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T57660] Elephant Plough. In Pietro de' Crescenzi, De omnibus agriculturae partibus ..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), March 1548 (Warsaw, BN), p. 43 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T56852] Martin Waldseemüller (designer), Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes [12 sheets] (Washington, Library of Congress) ◼ printing: impression single piece: broadside woodcut paper 2330 1280 1507 1507‑01‑01 1507‑12‑31