Dogs
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| Old plates from the Pictorial Collection |
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Dogs (Canis familiaris) are as man's probably first domestic animals depicted in artworks from the earliest times. In the library's old collections dogs are chiefly described and depicted as man's helper at hunting and as a guardian of the home and the herd. Below a selection of illustrations from some of the pictorial works from the years 1700-1800 depicting hunting dogs and dog breeds - including the charming plates in Götz' books. |
| G-L. L. de Buffon: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi. 1750-79: |
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| H.F. von Fleming: Der vollkommene teutsche Jäger ... 1719-24: |
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| A.W. von Mellin: Versuch einer Anweisung zur .. Wildbahnen im Freien als in Thiergärten. 1779: |
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| J.M. Jeitter: Jagdkatechismus. Abbildungen der jagdbaren Thiere, Jagdhunde ... 1829: |
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| T. Götz: Monographie des Hundes ... 1834: |
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| T. Götz: Hunde-Gallerie oder naturgetreue Darstellung des Hundes. 1838: |
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| H.G.L. Reichenbach: Der Hund in seinen Haupt-und Neben-Racen ... 1836: |
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