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
[T18582]Horned hare skull. 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. 634 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T18588]Horned hare skull. In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. LXXIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46109]Horned hare skull. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 64 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4400]Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek)printing: early printed bookset or complex object: bound volume: codexwoodcut, black letterpresspaper
[T83447]Fourhorn sculpin (Scorpus simpliciter vel maior). 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. 1017 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9123]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)printing: early printed bookset or complex object: bound volume: codexwoodcut, black letterpresspaper
[T83446]Christian Friedrich Fritzsch (printmaker), Wolverine (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) ◼printing: impressionextracted pieceetchingpaper
[T83445]Christian Friedrich Fritzsch (printmaker), Gerrit van der Heuvel (draughtsman), Wolverineprinting: matrixmetal: coppertool
[T83443]Bison Jubatus (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) ◼printing: impressionetchingpaper
[T83444]Christian Friedrich Fritzsch (printmaker), Gerrit van der Heuvel (draughtsman), Bison Jubatusprinting: matrixmetal: coppertool17661766‑01‑011766‑12‑31
[T81107]Animals of the Hercynian Forest (state III/III) (Tonson)printing: matrixset or complex object: piecemetal: coppertool
[T78691]Cornelis Huyberts (printmaker), Animals of the Hercynian Forest (Ursus, Bos Gallicus sive Bisons and Alces). In Gaius Iulius Caesar, C. Julii Caesaris quae extant, London: Jacob (I) Tonson (printer), 1712 (San Fernando, Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T78693]Cornelis Huyberts (printmaker), Animals of the Hercynian Forest (state II/III) (Tonson). Part of Set for Clarke's edition of Caesar's works (Tonson 1712)printing: matrixset or complex object: piecemetal: coppertool
[T83442]Set for Clarke's edition of Caesar's works (Tonson 1712)printing: matrixset or complex object: graphic cycle
[T78692]Gaius Iulius Caesar, C. Julii Caesaris quae extant, London: Jacob (I) Tonson (printer), 1712 (San Fernando, Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada)printing: early printed bookset or complex object: bound volume: codexengraving, black letterpresspaper
[T82933]Water Buffalo? (Buffle). In Antoine François Prévost, Histoire générale des voyages [vol. 1], Paris: 1746 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82934]Buffalo (Didot). Part of Set for Prévost, Histoire générale des voyagesprinting: matrixset or complex object: piecemetal: coppertool
[T82919]Wolverine and Gray Mouse Opossum ? (Espece de Loup appellé Quick Hatch, our Wolverene and Porc-Epic). In Antoine François Prévost, Histoire générale des voyages [vol. 15], Paris: Marguerite Didot (née Ravenel) (printer), 1759 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82918]American Bison and Opossum. In Antoine François Prévost, Histoire générale des voyages [vol. 15], Paris: Marguerite Didot (née Ravenel) (printer), 1759 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82917]Armadillo and Beaver. In Antoine François Prévost, Histoire générale des voyages [vol. 15], Paris: Marguerite Didot (née Ravenel) (printer), 1759 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration