Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico1874] African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) and narrower iconographies
✕
ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T5563]African buffalo (De Bubalo Africano, longe diverso a bubalo recentiorum). In Conrad Gessner, Appendix historiae Quadrupedum uiuiparorum & ouiparorum, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1554 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 11 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5574]African buffalo (Bubalus Africanus). 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. 125 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T48945]Pieter van der Borcht (designer), Geeraard Jansen van Kampen (printmaker), African Buffalo. In Pierre Belon, Petri Bellonii Cenomani Plvrimarvm Singvlarivm & memorabilium rerum in Graecia, Asia ... Obseruationes ..., Charles de L'Écluse (Clusius) (translator), Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana (printer), 1589 (Munich, BSB), p. 282 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5540]African buffalo (Indianischer oder Affricanischer Büffel, Bubalus Affricanus, Ein wälscher Büffel). In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. CXXVIIIv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4437]African buffalo (Bubalus Africanus Bellonii). In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 33 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T45092]African buffalo (Bubalus Africanus). 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. 11 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5617]African buffalo (African bugil). In Edward Topsell, The History Of Four-footed Beasts And Serpents..., London: Ellen Cotes (printer), 1658 (Durham, NC, Duke University Libraries), p. 46 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5463]African Buffalo (Rome, ICG). Part of Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (print publisher), Nova raccolta de li Animali piu curiosi nel Mondo disegnati da Antonio Tempesta e dati in luce per Gio Jacomo Rossi in Roma alla Pace cum Privil. S.P. 1650 (Rome, ICG) ◼printing: impressionsingle pieceengraving, etchingpaper1870 ‑ 19341870‑01‑011934‑12‑31
[T43288]Baboon, African Buffalo, 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: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T16838]African Buffalo (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) ◼printing: impressionsingle pieceengraving, etchingpaper1565 ‑ 16501565‑01‑011650‑12‑31
[T84276]r'Gnu and Buffel. In Anders Sparrman, Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra Polkretsen och omkring Jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-Landen Åren 1772–1776, Stockholm: 1783 (Göttingen, SUB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengraving, etchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84273]Gnu and Buffalo. In Anders Sparrman, A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and round the world, vol. 2, Georg Forster (translator), London: 1786 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84269]T. Thornton (printmaker), Four Quadrupeds (The Zebra, The American Buffalo, The Zebul and The many Horned Sheep) (London, Wellcome Collection) ◼printing: impressionextracted pieceengraving, etchingpaper
[T84262]T. Thornton (printmaker), Four Quadrupeds (The Zebra, The American Buffalo, The Zebul and The many Horned Sheep). In George Henry Millar, The New, Complete, Authentic, and Universal System of Geography: Being a Complete Modern History and Description of the Whole World, London: Alexander Hogg (printer), 1782, p. 328/329 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84179]African Buffalo (A Buffalo) (Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum of American Art) ◼printing: impressionetchingpaper17501750‑01‑011750‑12‑31
[T84223]George Child (printmaker), African Buffalo ◼printing: impressionetchingpaper
[T84190]African Buffalo. In A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. 2, London: Thomas Astley (publisher), 1745 (New York, NYPL) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84203]African Buffalo and Lions. In John Hamilton Moore, A new and complete collection of voyages and travels, London: Alexander Hogg (printer), 1785 (London, Wellcome Collection), p. 728/729 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84201]John Royce (printmaker), African Buffalo and Lions. In George Henry Millar, The New, Complete, Authentic, and Universal System of Geography: Being a Complete Modern History and Description of the Whole World, London: Alexander Hogg (printer), 1782, p. 248/249 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5628]African buffalo (African Bugill). In Edward Topsell, The Historie Of Fovre-Footed Beastes ..., London: William Jaggard (printer), 1607 (London, The Wellcome Library), p. 60 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration