Curator's comments
This is the only known impression of the print. It is pasted on a page from an album which was put together in the 16thc and later acquired by Sloane. The surviving pages are now split between the British Library (Department of Manuscripts) and P&D. The collection is characterised by the unusual leaf nature-printing.
See also comment for S.6636.
Lit.: Ingrid Faust, 'Zoologische Einblattdrucke und Flugschriften vor 1800, Band IV: Wale, Sirenen, Elefanten', Stuttgart, 2002, cat.no. 648.
H. Devisscher (ed.), 'Wonderlycke dieren op papier in de tijd van Plantin', exhib.cat. Museum Plantin-Moretus/Prentenkabinet, Antwerpen, 2007, pp.189-191, cat.no.72.
Subject
mammal (all objects)
Associated events
Associated Event Exhibition of an elephant in Antwerp
1563 (24 September)
Associated places
Associated with Antwerp (all objects)
Acquisition date
1753
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by Sir Hans Sloane (biographical details | all objects)
Transferred from British Library (biographical details | all objects)
Acquisition notes
Extracted from Sloane 5220-18, and transferred from the Department of Manuscripts in 1928.
Exhibition History
2007 May-Aug, Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Wonderlycke dieren ...
2010/ll Nov-Feb, Zürich, Museum Reitberg, Ivory from Ceylon: Renaissance Luxury
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