Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of mythical creature with early colouring from Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' 1557. Publ. Christof Froshover, Zurich. Gesner takes this image from Breidenbach's 'Journey to the Holy Land'...
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of mythical creature with contemporary colouring from 'Icones Animalium' Publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner illustrates a creature captured in the forest of Hanesberg...
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Crested Porcupine (Hystrix cristata) with colouring. From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Of Gesner's many woodcuts this is one of the more...
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Paul D Stewart / Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) portrait detail from a woodcut with old colouring. Conrad Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner's artist catches the perceived intelligent a...
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut with old colouring of shark and shark tooth fossil from Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560 (also 1558 in Historiae Animalium, Liber IIII). This is the first West...
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Flying fish (Exocoetus spp.) with old colouring and paper age toning and staining. From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560.
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut with old colouring of fish. Conrad Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. In marked contrast to his exotica which were often fancifully drawn Gesner's woodcuts of f...
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration with old colouring of Barbary Macaque monkey (Macaca sylvanus) identified as 'Ein Aff' (An ape). From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. The divi...
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of whale slaughter with old colouring from Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Foschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner appears to derive this image partly from Olaus Magnus 'Historia...
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of whale attacking ship, with old colouring. From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' published by Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560.
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of sharks attacking a man, with a ray coming to help, with old colouring. From Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. This scene is copied by Gesner fr...
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of a Mole, (Talpa europaea), with original hand colouring from Conrad Gesner 'Icones Animalium' 1560. Before the advent of Linnaeus' binomial latin taxonomic nomenclature such tra...