Beschrijving Juffer-Bokje Guinee Vosmaer 1766

Vosmaer, A. and Engraving by Du Boulois

Natural History Guinea 1766 | Coloured engraving of goat (Guineesche juffer-bokje) with 8 pages of text: Beschryving van een (…) bokje ‘t welk wy (…) noemen het Guineesche juffer-bokje. Amsterdam, P. Meijer, 1766, 9 pp.

Name: Natural History Guinea 1766 | Coloured engraving of goat (Guineesche juffer-bokje) with 8 pages of text: Beschryving van een (...) bokje 't welk wy (...) noemen het Guineesche juffer-bokje. Amsterdam, P. Meijer, 1766, 9 pp.
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Full title: A. Vosmaer, Beschryving van een genoegzaam nog onbekend en allersierlykst Bokje, ‘t welk wy om deszelfs fraaije en syne gestalte noemen, het Guineesche Juffer-Bokje; van Voornoemde Kust overgebragt en bewaard wordende in de Diergaarde van zyne doorluchtigste hoogheid den heere prinse van Oranje en Nassauw (Amsterdam, 1766). Contemporary coloured engraving of the goat, total 27 x 21 cm, platemark 20,5 x 15 cm. Engraving made by Du Boulois after A. Schouwman. Text by A. Vosmaer, director of the Royal Natural and Art Cabinet (Directeur Vorstelijke Natuur- en Kunst-Kabinetten). Very nice copy of Vosmaer’s original publication in Dutch, only some browning at the bottom of the pages.

Vosmaer’s private collection became the basis of the Stadholder Willem V’s (1748-1806) cabinet and menagerie. Vosmaer (1720-1799) devoted a lot of time to systematically organizing and describing the Stadholderly cabinet which was situated in The Hague. The menagerie of living animals was kept at the country house “Het kleine Loo”. From 1766 onward, Vosmaer started publishing detailed and illustrated descriptions of some of the exotic animals that were kept in the cabinet and the menagerie. Between 1766 and 1787 he published thirty-one such descriptions, and in 1804 two more pieces appeared posthumously. The 33 descriptions were then republished in one volume in the same year, under the title Regnum Animale. In 1766 Vosmaer described a springbok, which he calle “pronk-bokje” literatlly flaunting goat. In July 1774 the Stadholder received tow living springboks sent to him by Cape commander, Mr. Gordon. One of them the female died soon but the other lived for a long time.

In the text: Dr. Grimm, Africa, Buffon, Daubenton, Guinée, Tetje (naam van het bokje).

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Landwehr 204. F. Pieters 1980. Marieke Hendriksen, Animal Bodies between Wonder and Natural HIstory: Taxidermy in the Cabinet and Menagerie of Stadholder Willem V, 2022, Journal of Social History 2019.

€ 218,00 (€ 200,00 ex. btw)

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