Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico1760] Opossum (Didelphis) and narrower iconographies
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T4452]Opossum (? Su). In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 127 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T86272]Opossum (? Su). In Edward Topsell, The Historie Of Fovre-Footed Beastes ..., London: William Jaggard (printer), 1607 (London, The Wellcome Library), p. 660 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T58237]Opossum (? Su). In André Thevet, Les singvlaritez de la France antarctiqve, avtrement nommée Amerique ..., Paris: Heirs of Maurice de La Porte (printer), 1557 (Washington, DC, Library of Congress), fol. 109r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T48642]Christoffel Jegher (printmaker), Opossum (Su). In Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Ioannis Evsebii Nierembergii ... Historia Natvrae, Maximae Peregrinae..., Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus (printer), 1635 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 189 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T48616]Christoffel Jegher (printmaker), Prehensile-tailed porcupine (Hoitzlaquatzin). In Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Ioannis Evsebii Nierembergii ... Historia Natvrae, Maximae Peregrinae..., Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus (printer), 1635 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 154 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83101]Gray Mouse Opossum or Prehensile-tailed porcupine (De Hoitztlacuatzin, seu Tlacuatzin spinoso, Hystrice Novae Hispaniae). In Francisco Hernández, Rervm Medicarvm Novae Hispaniae Thesavrvs, Sev, Plantarvm Animalivm Mineralivm Mexicanorvm Historia ..., Rome: Vitale Mascardi (printer), 1651 (Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute), p. 322 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T85178]American Bison, Pelican and Opossum (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) ◼printing: impressionextracted pieceetchingpaper
[T84569]American Bison, Pelican and Opossum. In Louis Hennepin, A new discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico, London: Jacob (I) Tonson (publisher), 1698, p. 90/91 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84356]Opossum. In Arnoldus Montanus, America: being an accurate description of the Nevv VVorld, John Ogilby (translator), London: 1670 (Providence, RI, John Carter Brown Library), p. 59 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T43410]Workshop of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printmaker), Tabl LXIII (Carigueija, Aperea Cuniculi species, Cavia Cobaija, Aguti, Paca, Cuniculi Indus Gesneri, Dachs, Tatu). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Natvralis De Quadrvpetibvs Libri ..., Frankfurt am Main: Heirs of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printer), 1649 - 1652 (Mannheim, Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim), Tab. LXIII ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82922]American Bison and Opossum. In Histoire générale des voyages, vol. 22, Amsterdam: Daniel Jean Changuion (printer), Evert van Harrevelt (printer), 1777 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84189]Carte tres curieuse de la Mer du Sud.... In Atlas historique, ou Nouvelle introduction a l'histoire, à la chronologie et à la geographie ancienne et moderne [...] Tome VI, Amsterdam: L'Honoré & Châtelain (printer), 1719 (Wrocław, BUWr) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83609]Carte de la Mer du Sud et de la Mer du Nord (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University) ◼printing: impressionengraving, hand colouringpaper
[T82918]American Bison and Opossum. In Histoire générale des voyages, vol. 15, Paris: Marguerite Didot (née Ravenel) (printer), 1759 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82910]Jan van Vianen (printmaker attr.), Caspar Luyken (printmaker attr.), American Bison, Pelican and Opossum. In Louis Hennepin, Voyage, ou Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique entre le Nouveau Mexique et la mer Glaciale, Amsterdam: Adriaan Braakman (printer), 1704 (Paris, BnF) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82891]Jan van Vianen (printmaker attr.), Caspar Luyken (printmaker attr.), American Bison, Pelican and Opossum. In Louis Hennepin, Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique entre le Nouveau Mexique, Amsterdam: Abraham van Someren (printer), 1698 (Paris, BnF) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82902]Jan van Vianen (printmaker attr.), Caspar Luyken (printmaker attr.), American Bison, Pelican and Opossum. In Louis Hennepin, Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique entre le Nouveau Mexique, Utrecht: Willem Broedelet (printer), 1697 (Prague, NK ČR) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82886]American Bizon, Pelican and Opossum (Von dem wilden Ochsen aus West-Indien, wie auch dem Aegyptischen Meer-Ochsen). In Michael Bernhard Valentini, Musei Museorum Oder Der vollständigen Schau-Bühne frembder Naturalien Zweyter Theil, Frankfurt am Main: Johann David Zunner (printer), 1714 (Bamberg, SBB), p. 134 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaper
[T2349]Apish fox (simivulpa). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle (Saale), ULB), p. 981 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T17070]Martin Waldseemüller (designer), Carta marina (Washington, DC, Library of Congress) ◼printing: impressionwoodcutpapermap15161516‑01‑011516‑12‑31