Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico2292] Tortoises, turtles and narrower iconographies
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T5128]Plan of Noah's Ark. In Athanasius Kircher, Athanasii Kircheri ... Arca Noë: In Tres Libros Digesta, Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (printer), 1675 (Warsaw, BN), after p. 108 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T47912]Turtle (Tortuca). In Viellerley wu[n]derbarlicher Thier des Erdtrichs Mehrs vnd des Luffts allen anfahenden Malern vnd Goldtschmieden nuetzlich Sampt andern Kuenstnern, Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1546 (Munich, BSB), fol. O2v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T45109]Turtle (De testudine marina). 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. 105 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T90076]Tab. LXXX Armadillo and Tortoises (Tatus, Testudo). In Henricus Ruysch, Theatrum Universale Omnium Animalium Piscium, Avium, Quadrupedum, Exanguium, Aquaticorum, Insectorum, Et Angium, CCLX, Tabulis Ornatum, Amsterdam: 1718 (Vienna, ÖNB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T43440]Workshop of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printmaker), Tab. LXXX: Armadillo and Tortoises (Tatus, Testudo). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Natvralis De Quadrvpetibvs Libri ..., Frankfurt am Main: Heirs of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printer), 1649 - 1652 (Mannheim, Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T90021]Tab. LXXX Armadillo and Tortoises (Tatus, Testudo). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Naturalis De Quadrupedibus Libri. Cum aeneis figuris ..., Amsterdam: Jan Janszoon Schipper (printer), 1657 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T87029]Tortoise shell. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Heidelberg: Andreas Cambier (printer), Johann Lancelot (printer), 1606 (London, BL), p. 118printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T86855]Tortoise. In Athanasius Kircher, Athanasii Kircheri ... Arca Noë: In Tres Libros Digesta, Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (printer), 1675 (Warsaw, BN), p. 72 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T64043]Marcus (I) Gheeraerts (designer attr.), Various animals. In Animalium Quadrupedum Omnis Generis Verae et Artificiosissimae Delineationes, Antwerp: Eduard van Hoeswinckel (printer), 1583 (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaper
[T76063]Willem Janszoon Blaeu (designer), Josua van den Ende (printmaker), Hessel Gerritsz (printmaker), Map of Africa. In Geographica Et Hydrographica Nova Africae Descriptio, Amsterdam: Hendrik (I) Hondius (printer), 1624 (Weimar, HAAB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengraving, etchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T43289]Hippopotamus, Sheep, Porcupine, Tortoise, Hyena and Civet Cat. In Peter Kolb, Caput Bonae Spei hodiernum, das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung, Nuremberg: 1719 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), Tab. VI ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook 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
[T82882]Title-page border with various specimens. In Michael Bernhard Valentini, Museum Museorum, Oder Vollständige Schau-Bühne Aller Materialien und Specereyen, Frankfurt am Main: Johann David Zunner (printer), 1714 (Bamberg, SBB) ◼printing: impressionpage: marginalia and bordersengravingpaperbook decoration: front matter
[T82779]Tortoise (Van de Schilt-padden). In Gaius Plinius Secundus, C. Plinii Secundi des wijd-vermaerden natuurkondigers vijf boecken handelende van de nature, Amsterdam: Joost Hartgers (printer), 1650 (Ghent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent), p. 498 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82784]Frontispiece with Temptation and Fall. In Gaius Plinius Secundus, C. Plinii Secundi des wijd-vermaerden natuurkondigers vijf boecken handelende van de nature, Amsterdam: Joost Hartgers (printer), 1650 (Ghent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent) ◼printing: impressionpage: marginalia and bordersetchingpaperbook decoration: front matter
[T80317]Heinrich (I) Vogtherr (printmaker attr.), Title-page border with various animals. In Gart der gesundheit Zu latein Hortvs Sanitatis ..., Johannes de Cuba (compiler), Strasbourg: Matthias Apiarius (printer), 1536 (Munich, BSB), fol. A1v ◼printing: impressionpage: marginalia and borderswoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50358]Tortoise. In Claude Perrault, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux, Paris: l'Imprimerie royale (printer), 1676 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T77934]Tortoise. In Claude Perrault, Memoires for a natural history of animals, Alexander Pitfield (translator), London: Joseph Streater (printer), 1688 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), pag. 250 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T51938]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Sea Turtle II (Testudo Marina). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedib[us] Digitatis Viviparis Libri Tres ..., Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), Marco Antonio Bernia (publisher), Bartolomeo Ambrosini (publisher), 1645 (Warsaw, BN), p. 715 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration