Zoological print collection
Abstract
Collection of zoological prints spanning from the 15th to mid 19th centuries.
Dates
- Creation: 1491 - 1844
Creator
- Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605? (Person)
- Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph, 1731-1807 (Person)
- Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788 (Person)
- Collaert, Adriaen, -1618 (Person)
- De Kay, James E. (James Ellsworth), 1792-1851 (Person)
- Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 (Person)
- Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565 (Person)
- Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823 (Person)
- Knorr, Georg Wolfgang, 1705-1761 (Person)
- Meyer, Johann Daniel, 1713- (Person)
- Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688 (Person)
- Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, 1672-1733 (Person)
Historical Note
In 1970, the library received a portion of a grant awarded to Butler by Sears, Roebuck and Company, which was to be used for library enrichment. Given the earlier curation of the botanical prints collection, it seemed reasonable at the time to form a parallel collection of zoological prints. Both collections begin with leaves containing woodcuts from the Hortus Sanitatus of 1491, and both terminate with the lithographic illustrations from mid-nineteenth century American and European natural history publications.
Extent
4 Linear Feet (2 flat boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired from various sources. Plates 35 to 39 are the gift of Dr. and Mrs. Murrill Lowry in memory of Marvin Lowry, 1973.
Bibliography
- Title
- Guide to the Zoological prints collection
- Author
- Richard A. Davis
- Date
- circa 1986
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Butler University Special Collections and University Archives Repository
4600 Sunset Avenue
Irwin Library 345
Indianapolis Indiana 46208 United States
specialcollections@butler.edu