Book ID: CBB650610644

Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities (2017)

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MacGregor, Arthur G. (Author)
McBurney, Henrietta (Author)
Napoleone, Caterina (Author)
Rolfe, Ian (Author)
Findlen, Paula (Author)


Harvey Miller Publishers


Publication Date: 2017
Edition Details: The Paper Museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo, Series B: Natural History
Physical Details: 864 pp.
Language: English

This catalogue brings together some of the finest natural history drawings executed for Cassiano, including 251 coloured drawings of fauna, and 63 of gems, marbles, fossils and other natural curiosities. Cassiano had a particular interest in ornithology, and birds are thus the best-represented members of the animal kingdom in this group, with more than 200 drawings of both native and exotic species. Other drawings of fauna catalogued here include mammals, fishes and crustaceans. Like the bird drawings, many are drawn with painstaking attention to detail and scale, a complete specimen drawn on a reduced scale to fit the sheet, with anatomical details depicted life size. The drawings of mineral specimens and other natural curiosities depict the sort of item commonly found in seventeenth-century collectors' cabinets: gemstones, bezoars, marbles, corals, 'Lucifer' stones, fossils, exotic seeds and beans, as well as scientific instruments.

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Authors & Contributors
Grouw, H. Van
Bloch, D.
María Sánchez-Jáuregui Alpañés
Wunsch, Oliver
Kamensky, Jane
Robles, Whitney Barlow
Concepts
Natural history
Cabinets of curiosities
Museums
Collectors and collecting
Birds
Illustrations
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Early modern
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
Places
United States
Netherlands
Atlantic world
Madrid (Spain)
Peru
Mediterranean region
Institutions
Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
Harvard University
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