Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico753] Mis-shapen animals; monsters and narrower iconographies
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T85200]Bisontis figura. In Gaius Iulius Caesar, C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarij ab Aldo Manutio Paulli f. Aldi, Venice: Fioravante Prati (printer), 1584 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: front matter
[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
[T84476]Narwhal, Whale, Seals and Polar Bear. In Henry Ellis, A voyage to Hudson's-Bay: by the Dobbs Galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, London: 1748 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9108]Unicorn (Camphruch). In La cosmographie uniuerselle (1), Paris: Pierre L'Huillier (printer), 1575 (Providence, RI, John Carter Brown Library), fol. 431v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4517]Tabl. X (Monoceros / Capricornus Marinus / Monoceros). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Naturalis De Quadrupedibus Libri. Cum aeneis figuris ..., Amsterdam: Jan Janszoon Schipper (printer), 1657 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), after p. 36 (i) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4517]Tabl. X (Monoceros / Capricornus Marinus / Monoceros). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Naturalis De Quadrupedibus Libri. Cum aeneis figuris ..., Amsterdam: Jan Janszoon Schipper (printer), 1657 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), after p. 36 (i) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T6078]Bisontis figura. In Gaius Iulius Caesar, C. Ivlii Caesaris Commentarii Ab Aldo Manvtio Pavlli F. Aldi N. Emendati Et Scholis Illvstrati ..., Venice: Aldo (II) Manuzio (printer), 1575 (Cremona, Biblioteca di Cremona), fol. b5r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T16935]Robert Walton (print publisher), A Booke of all Kinds of BEASTS, in their severall Shapes, Postures, and Proportions, being the third Part of the View of Creation. This, as also all other Parts, are Printed & Sold By Robert Walton, at the Globe & Compasses, near the Great North Door of St. Pauls Church (London, BM) ◼printing: impressionengravingpaperbook decoration: front matter2721741660 ‑ 16701660‑01‑011670‑12‑31
[T84352]Animals of America. In Arnoldus Montanus, America: being an accurate description of the Nevv VVorld, John Ogilby (translator), London: 1670 (Providence, RI, John Carter Brown Library), p. 173 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T53131]Monogrammist MLF (printmaker), Three-horned Hungarian bull. In Es werden heunt umb I.Uhr in dem Fecht-hauß, überauß zween Ungarische wilde Stier, Strasbourg: 1575 - 1585 (London, BM) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration15998
[T84293]Cretan Sheep, Many Horn'd, Iceland. In Thomas Pennant, Synopsis of quadrupeds, Chester: John Monk (printer), 1771, Pl. III ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84293]Cretan Sheep, Many Horn'd, Iceland. In Thomas Pennant, Synopsis of quadrupeds, Chester: John Monk (printer), 1771, Pl. III ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84279]Hunting and a Fight between a Rhinoceros and an Elephant. In Peter Kolb, Caput Bonae Spei hodiernum, das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung, Nuremberg: 1719 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), Tab. IV ◼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
[T5117]Tabl. VII (1. Aries Cretensis Striptocerus / 2. Aries sine Cornibus & cauda / 3. Aries Reflexis & conVolutis cornibus / 4. Ouis Insulce Madagascar / 5. Agnus natus duobus Capitibus et quinque pedibus / 6. Agnus Capite Suillo / 7. Agnus pedibus Equinis & capite Simice / 8. Agnus Triceps / 9. Agnus Niger dorso duplici conjuncto pedibus octo). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Ulyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis, Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia ..., Frankfurt am Main: Caspar Rotelius (printer), Johann David Zunner (publisher), 1647 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 189 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5117]Tabl. VII (1. Aries Cretensis Striptocerus / 2. Aries sine Cornibus & cauda / 3. Aries Reflexis & conVolutis cornibus / 4. Ouis Insulce Madagascar / 5. Agnus natus duobus Capitibus et quinque pedibus / 6. Agnus Capite Suillo / 7. Agnus pedibus Equinis & capite Simice / 8. Agnus Triceps / 9. Agnus Niger dorso duplici conjuncto pedibus octo). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Ulyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis, Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia ..., Frankfurt am Main: Caspar Rotelius (printer), Johann David Zunner (publisher), 1647 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 189 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82941]Jacques de Sève (draughtsman), Ram of Iceland. Part of Figures pour l'histoire des quadrupèdes, par M. de Buffon, vol. IV (Paris, BnF). Part of Drawings for Buffon's Histoire naturelle ◼drawingpaperpreparatory model17571757‑01‑011757‑12‑31
[T84243]Animals of Iceland (Animaux d'Islande). In Histoire générale des voyages, vol. 24, Amsterdam: Daniel Jean Changuion (printer), Evert van Harrevelt (printer), 1779 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84126]Johannes van der Spyck (printmaker), Sword-fish and Whale. In Jakob Boerhave, Aandagtig beschouw, naauwkeurig ondersoek, ende uitvoerige verklaaring van den Behemoth, en den Leviathan, Leiden: Samuel Luchtmans (printer), 1737 (Vienna, ÖNB), Pl. 4 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengraving, etchingpaperbook decoration: illustration