Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico2157] Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus)
ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T44457] Christoffel Jegher (printmaker), Guinea pig (Cuniculus Indicus). In Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Ioannis Evsebii Nierembergii ... Historia Natvrae, Maximae Peregrinae..., Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus (printer), 1635 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 160 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T44458] Christoffel Jegher (printmaker), Guinea pig II. In Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Ioannis Evsebii Nierembergii ... Historia Natvrae, Maximae Peregrinae..., Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus (printer), 1635 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 160 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T51047] Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Female Guinea Pig (Cuniculus Indicus Foemina). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedib[us] Digitatis Viviparis Libri Tres ..., Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), Bartolomeo Ambrosini (publisher), Marco Antonio Bernia (publisher), 1645 (Warsaw, BN), p. 393 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T51045] Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Guinea pig (Porcellus indicus). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedib[us] Digitatis Viviparis Libri Tres ..., Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), Bartolomeo Ambrosini (publisher), Marco Antonio Bernia (publisher), 1645 (Warsaw, BN), p. 391 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T43416] Workshop of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printmaker), Tab. LXIV (Putorius, Mustela, Martes, Taxus suillus, Porcellus Indicus, Hystrix). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Natvralis De Quadrvpetibvs Libri ..., Frankfurt am Main: Heirs of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printer), 1649 - 1652 (Mannheim, Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim) printing: impression page: figure engraving paper book decoration: illustration
[T43805] Porcupine (captioned as Meer Schwein). In Georg Schaller, Ein neuw Thierbuch ..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1569 (Munich, BSB), fol. I4r printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T38684] Rabbit (captioned as Porcellus Indicus) (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) printing: impression single piece etching paper
[T16935] Robert Walton (print publisher), A Booke of all Kinds of BEASTS, in their severall Shapes, Postures, and Proportions, being the third Part of the View of Creation. This, as also all other Parts, are Printed & Sold By Robert Walton, at the Globe & Compasses, near the Great North Door of St. Pauls Church (London, BM) printing: impression single piece engraving paper book decoration: title page 272 174 1660 ‑ 1670 1660‑01‑01 1670‑12‑31
[T38653] Guinea pig (Porcellus Indicus - Pocello d'India) (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) printing: impression single piece etching paper 137 95
[T32637] Guinea Pig (De cuniculo vel porcello Indico). 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. 367 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T48134] Guinea pig (Cuniculus Indus, Ein Indianisch Künele). In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. LXXIIIv printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T46229] Guinea pig (Cuniculus Indus). In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 106 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T45089] Guinea pig (De cuniculo ver porcello Indico). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini historiae animalium liber II. de quadrupedibus oviparis ... item oviparorum quorundam appendix, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1554 (Zürich, ZB), p. 19 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T38650] Guinea pig (De cuniculo ver porcello Indico). In Conrad Gessner, Appendix historiae Quadrupedum uiuiparorum & ouiparorum, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1554 (Washington, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 19 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T5523] Guinea pig (Cuniculus Indicus). In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1553 (Zürich, ZB), p. 63 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T43288] Baboon, Bubalus, Lion, Ichneumon, Rehe and Guinea Pig. In Peter Kolb, Caput Bonae Spei hodiernum, das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung, Nuremberg: 1719 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), Tab. V printing: impression page: figure engraving paper book decoration: illustration
[T38656] Guinea pig (Porcus Guineensis). In Historia Natvralis Brasiliae ..., Amsterdam, Leiden: Lowijs Elzevier (printer), Franciscus Hackius (printer), 1648 (Cracow, BJ), p. 230 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T52782] Guinea pig (Cavia corbata). In Jacob de Bondt, Willem Piso, Gulielmi Pisonis ... De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim, Amsterdam: Lowijs Elzevier (printer), 1658 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T48575] Guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). In Historia Natvralis Brasiliae ..., Amsterdam, Leiden: Lowijs Elzevier (printer), Franciscus Hackius (printer), 1648 (Cracow, BJ), p. 224 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T47517] Sea urchin (? Möhrschweyn). In Michael Herr, Gründtlicher vnderricht warhaffte vnd eygentliche beschreibung ... aller vierfüssigen thier ..., Strasbourg: Balthasar Beck (printer), 1546 (Berlin, SBB), fol. LXXIv printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration