Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.03987
Title
- Northern giraffe [Giraffa camelopardalis]
Creator
Pieter van der Borcht (designer), Geeraard Jansen van Kampen (woodcutter [printmaker])
Production date
1588
Object name
woodblock [printing matrix]
Material
wood [plant material]
Technique
woodcut [printing process]
Acquisition date
1876-04-20
Acquisition method
purchase - Moretus, Edward
Printed in
- Pierre Belon, Plurimarum singularium & memorabilium rerum in Graecia, Asia, Aegypto, Judaea, Arabia, aliisque exteris provinciis ab ipso conspectarum observationes, tribus libris expressae, 1589, p. 280
- Carolus Clusius, Exoticorum libri decem: item Petri Bellonii observationes, 1605, Bellonius p. 119
Literature
- Léon Voet, The Plantin Press, 1555-1589: a bibliography of the works printed and published by Christopher Plantin at Antwerp and Leiden, 1980-1983, nr. 639