A gathering of many different animals with a large walled classical Italian-style garden behind and a banner bearing the book title above. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.

  • Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.
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1674
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24360i
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A gathering of many different animals with a large walled classical Italian-style garden behind and a banner bearing the book title above. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London (at the White Horse without New-gate) : Printed and are to be sould, by John Overton, 1674.

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1 print : etching ; platemark 17.3 x 27.6 cm

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Animalium, ferarum, & bestiarum, florum, fructuum, muscarum, vermiumq́: icones variæ, omnes ad vivum delineatæ, per Wenceslaum Hollar, & in lucem editæ, a Petro Stent, Londini, A.o 1663. A new and perfect book of beasts, flowers, fruits, butterflies, & other vermine, exactly drawne after y.e life & naturall, by W: Hollar ... W. Hollar sculp Sheet bears number "43" inscribed in ink

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Print is one of nine plates from the 1674 ed. of the book (plates of the bear and red lilies, present in 1663 ed., are wanting)

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Wellcome Collection 24360i

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