Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico7206] Old World porcupines (Hystricidae) and narrower iconographies
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T2312]Porcupine (Hystrix). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle (Saale), ULB), p. 632 ◼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
[T82980]François-Nicolas Martinet (designer), Robert Bénard (printmaker), Beaver and Porcupine. In Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts mechaniques, Paris: 1768 (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine), Pl. XIII ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82764]Porcupine (Van het Steeckel-swijn, of te Yser-verken). 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. 321 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T76073]Monkey and Porcupine (Simiae & Porci Spinosi). In Geographica Et Hydrographica Nova Africae Descriptio, Amsterdam: Hendrik (I) Hondius (printer), 1624 (Weimar, HAAB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T78873]Jacob Andreas Fridrich (printmaker), Beaver and Porcupine. In Johann Jacob Scheuchzer, Kupfer-Bibel, In welcher Die Physica Sacra ..., Augsburg, Ulm: Christian Ulrich Wagner (printer), Johann Andreas Pfeffel (publisher), 1731 - 1735 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), Tab. DCVIII ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T77956]Porcupine and Hedgehog. In Claude Perrault, Memoires for a natural history of animals, Alexander Pitfield (translator), London: Joseph Streater (printer), 1688 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), pag. 146 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50015]Porcupine and Hedgehog. 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
[T44800]Porcupine (Histrix). In Ortus sanitatis, Johannes de Cuba (compiler attr.), Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach (printer), 23 June 1491 (Munich, BSB), fol. 275v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T51140]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Porcupine skin. 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. 475 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T43412]Workshop of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printmaker), Tab. LXVIII (Vitulus marinus, Lutra, Castor, Lonx, Herinaceus, Hijstrix). 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
[T43805]Porcupine (captioned as Meer Schwein). In Georg Schaller, Ein neuw Thierbuch ..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1569 (Munich, BSB), fol. I4r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50948]Porcupine (Hystrix). In Adam Lonitzer (?), Herbarvm, arborvm, frvcticvm ... imagines, Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff (printer), 1546 (Munich, BSB), p. 254 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T71700]Porcupine (Hystrix). In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De Medicinali Materia Libri Sex, Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff (printer), March 1543 (Munich, BSB), p. 94 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T41534]Porcupine (Hystrix). 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. 563 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46329]Porcupine (Hystrix, Dornschweyn). In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. XXXIVv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46216]Porcupine. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 87 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T64967]Porcupine and Hedgehog (Hystrix, Echinus terrestris). In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1558, p. 175 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T49345]Porcupine and Hedgehog (Hystrix, Echinus terrestris). 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. 156 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurehand colouring, woodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T47517]Heinrich (I) Vogtherr (printmaker attr.), Sea urchin (? Möhrschweyn). In Michael Herr, Gründtlicher vnderricht warhaffte vnd eygentliche beschreibung ... aller vierfüssigen thier ..., Strasbourg: Balthasar Beck (printer), 1546 (Berlin, SBB), fol. LXXIv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration