Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico1931] Scythian Lamb (Cibotium barometz) and narrower iconographies
ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T50462]Oriental Broad-tailed Sheep with its Tail on a Carriage and Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (Von dem Scythischen Lamb ofer Frucht-Thier Boromez, wie auch gemeinen und Orientalischen Schaafen, Wolle, Oesypus und dergleichen). In Michael Bernhard Valentini, Museum Museorum, Oder Vollständige Schau-Bühne Aller Materialien und Specereyen, Frankfurt am Main: Johann David Zunner (printer), 1714 (Bamberg, SBB), p. 457printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50455]Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (Portraict du Boramets de Scythie ou Tartarie). In Claude Duret, Histoire admirable des Plantes et Herbes esmerveillables et miraculeuses en nature, Paris: Nicolas Buon (printer), 1605 (Munich, BSB), p. 330printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50457]Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (London, BM)printing: impressionetchingpaper
[T69963]Christopher Switzer (blockcutter attr.), Title-page decoration - the Garden of Eden. In Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, John Parkinson (compiler), London: 1629 (Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute), fol. A1rprinting: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: front matter