Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T4863]Title page of Fabricius's Anatomices et chirurgiae ... tractatus quattuor. In Girolamo Fabrizi d'Acquapendente, Hieronymi Fabricii ab Aqvapendente ... Tractatvs Qvatvor ..., Frankfurt am Main: Hartmann Palthenius (printer), 1624 (Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon), fol. A1r ◼printing: impressionpage: marginalia and bordersengravingpaperbook decoration: title page
[T31]St John Cantius adoring Mary and Child, crowned with wreaths of lauels and roses, surrounded by scenes from his life (Wolfegg, Kunstsammlungen der Fürsten zu Waldburg-Wolfegg) ◼printing: impressionsingle pieceengravingpaper145208
[T82452]Giacomo Lauro (printmaker), Giambattista della Porta. In Giambattista della Porta, Ioannis Baptistae Portae Neapolitani, De Distillationibus, Libri IX, Rome: Stamperia Camerale (printer), 1608 (Pisa, Biblioteca Universitaria) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: title page
[T82282]Giacomo Lauro (printmaker), Giambattista della Porta. Part of p. 49. Part of Collection Marolles, vol. 58 (Paris, BnF) ◼printing: impressioninserted pieceengravingpaper
[T82447]Memorial of Andrew Báthory (Halle (Saale), Kunstmuseum Moritzburg) ◼printing: impressionetchingpaper270198
[T74927]Unusual Fish Caught in Stralsund. In Wahre Abcontraffarctur eines Fisches welcher im Februarii bey der Statt Stralsundt in Pommern von zweyen Fischern ist gefangen worden, Prague: Ludmila Sedlčanská (printer), 1638 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82445]Wolf. In Edward Topsell, The Historie Of Fovre-Footed Beastes ..., London: William Jaggard (printer), 1607 (London, The Wellcome Library), p. 734printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82442]Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. In The vvhite vvolfe or, A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Feb. 11. : being the last Sonday in Hillarie tearme, anno 1627, London: George Miller (printer), Robert Milbourne (publisher), 1627 (Washington, DC, FSL) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82443]Wolf in his own skin. In The vvhite vvolfe or, A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Feb. 11. : being the last Sonday in Hillarie tearme, anno 1627, London: George Miller (printer), Robert Milbourne (publisher), 1627 (Washington, DC, FSL) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T2349]Apish fox (simivulpa). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle (Saale), ULB), p. 981 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82370]Unusual Fish Caught in Venice in September 1624. In Le Portrait d'un Poisson, merveilleux et Monstrueux, qui a 36 pieds de longueur et 16 de largeur, apporté de Venise et présenté au Roy, Paris: [in or after September] 1624 (Paris, Musée Carnavalet) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: colophon
[T82439]Le Portrait d'un Poisson, merveilleux et Monstrueux, qui a 36 pieds de longueur et 16 de largeur, apporté de Venise et présenté au Roy, Paris: [in or after September] 1624 (Paris, Musée Carnavalet) ◼printing: impressionsingle piece: broadsidewoodcut, black letterpresspaper
[T82437]Wels catfish (Silurus for Ichthyocolla). 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. 104 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T81202]Wels Catfish (De Glanide Rondeletius). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Liber IIII: qui est de Piscium & Aquatilium animantium natura, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1558 (Washington, DC, Library of Congress), p. 457 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T81190]Wels Catfish (De Glanide). In Gvlielmi Rondeletii ... Vniuersae aquatilium Historiae pars altera ..., Lyon: Macé Bonhomme (printer), 1555 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 186 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T6058]American Bison (Le pourtraict du boeuf de quiuira, qui se rapporte fort au Bisons). In Gaius Iulius Caesar, Les Commentaires De Cesar Des Gverres De La Gavle ..., Blaise de Vigenère (translator), Paris: Nicolas Chesneau (printer), 1576 (Vienna, ÖNB), p. 233 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T8424]Christoffel Jegher (printmaker), American Bison (Taurus Quivirensis). In Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Ioannis Evsebii Nierembergii ... Historia Natvrae, Maximae Peregrinae..., Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus (printer), 1635 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 181 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82436]American Bison (location unknown, no copy identified) ◼printing: impressionwoodcutpaper
[T58213]American Bison (Toreau sauuage). In André Thevet, Les singvlaritez de la France antarctiqve, avtrement nommée Amerique ..., Paris: Heirs of Maurice de La Porte (printer), 1557 (Washington, DC, Library of Congress), fol. 147v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T32245]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Chillingham cattle (Bison albus Scoticus). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Qvadrvpedvm Omniv[m] Bisvlcorv[m] Historia ..., Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni (printer), Marco Antonio Bernia (publisher), 1641 - 1642 (Augsburg, SSB), p. 356 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration