The Digital Ark :: A collection within a collection: rediscovered animal drawings from the collections of Conrad Gessner and Felix Platter

The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

A collection within a collection: rediscovered animal drawings from the collections of Conrad Gessner and Felix Platter

Secondary Title (i.e. Proceedings Title): Periodical Title:Journal of the History of Collections Publication Type:article Authors:Egmond, Florike Editors: Publisher: Place of Publication: Publication Date:2013 Alternate Date (i.e. Conference Date): Volume:25 Issue:2 Start Page:149 End Page:170 Abstract:This article reports on the re-identification of two late-sixteenth-century albums in the University Library of Amsterdam, each containing large numbers of watercolour drawings of animals, pasted on to sheets of paper. Discussing the images, annotations, artists, watermarks, and bindings, as well as the relationships of the images with printed illustrations, the essay demonstrates that these albums were created by the Swiss physician Felix Platter (1536-1614) and that they contain, in addition to many animal drawings collected by Platter, several hundred more that belonged to the Swiss humanist and naturalist Conrad Gessner (1516-65). It emerges that the drawings are, in fact, the long-lost models (Vorlagen) for illustrations in his famous Historiae Animalium. Twenty-four folios are reproduced in an Supplementary Data. Descriptors/Keywords: ISBN: URL:doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhs002

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