Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico6917] Beavers (Castor) and narrower iconographies
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T83605]Nicolas (I) Guérard (printmaker), L'Amérique, divisée selon... ses principales parties... sur les observations... de l'Académie royale des Sciences. In Nicolas de Fer, Description de l'Amerique, Paris: 1698 (Paris, BnF) ◼printing: impressionsingle piece: broadsideengravingpaper
[T83604]A new and exact map of the dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America, containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina (Washington, DC, Library of Congress) ◼printing: impressionsingle piece: broadsideengraving, hand colouringpaper
[T83566]Beaver's Paws and Beaver. In Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch, Bilderbuch für Kinder: enthaltend eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Früchten, Mineralien ... vol. 1, Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir zu Weimar (printer), 1792 (Halle (Saale), ULB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83566]Beaver's Paws and Beaver. In Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch, Bilderbuch für Kinder: enthaltend eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Früchten, Mineralien ... vol. 1, Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir zu Weimar (printer), 1792 (Halle (Saale), ULB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82917]Elisabeth Haussard (printmaker), Armadillo and Beaver. In Histoire générale des voyages, vol. 15, Paris: Marguerite Didot (née Ravenel) (printer), 1759 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82928]Beaver, Hedgehog and Porcupine. In Noël-Antoine Pluche, Le Spectacle De La Nature ... Contenant ce qui regarde les animaux & les plantes, The Hague: 1743 (Berlin, SBB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T65060]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber). In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1558, p. 198 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5160]Conrad Schnitt (printmaker), Beaver or Musk Rat (Bißem thier). In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia. Bschreibung aller Lender..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1544 (Munich, BSB), p. dcxxxv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5242]Conrad Schnitt (printmaker), Beaver (for Castoreum). In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographiae uniuersalis Lib. VI in quibus, iuxta certiores fidei scriptorum ..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), January 1550 - March 1550 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart), p. 1043 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83166]Beaver (Castor). In Gart der gesundheit Zu latein Hortvs Sanitatis ..., Johannes de Cuba (compiler), Strasbourg: Matthias Apiarius (printer), 1536 (Munich, BSB), fol. XVr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83162]Johann Elias Ridinger (designer, printmaker), Beaver (Der Biber in seiner Ruhe). In Johann Elias Ridinger, Entwurf einiger Thiere ... nach dem Leben gezeichnet, samt beygefügten Anmerkungen ... Fünffter Theil, Augsburg: Johann Elias Ridinger (publisher), 1740 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83110]Beaver (Vom Biber). In Koch- vnnd Kellermeisterey von allen Speisen vnnd Geträncken, viel guter heimlicher Künste, Auch wie mann Latwergen, Salfen ... machen soll, Frankfurt am Main: Hermann Gülfferich (printer), 1547 (Vienna, ÖNB), fol. VIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83104]Beaver (Vom Biber). In Koch vnd Kellermeisterey, Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1581 (Berlin, SBB), fol. 32v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82991]Jan (II) Tons (draughtsman), Over Door Tapestry with the Arms of Poland on landscape background with Beaver and Porcupine (Cracow, Wawel Royal Castle). Part of Jagiellonian tapestries (the Wawel Arrasses) ◼craftstextile: silk250010951550 ‑ 15601550‑01‑011560‑12‑31
[T49435]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber). In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli medici Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore (var. B), Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1554 (Vienna, ÖNB), p. 176 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9079]Eurasian Beaver. In Pierre Belon, Petri Bellonii Cenomani De aquatilibus Libri duo ..., Paris: Charles Estienne (printer), 1553 (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library), p. 30 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T51031]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Eurasian Beaver (Castor). 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. 279 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T41523]Eurasian Beaver (Castor). 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. 309 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T44971]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber, Biber). In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. XXIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46213]Eurasian Beaver. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 84 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration