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Home COATIS: FROM THE AMERICAS TO EUROPE, FROM THE FAMILIAR TO THE EXOTIC APPENDIX: COATI IMAGE BANK

APPENDIX: COATI IMAGE BANK

last updated 5 January 2005

1. COATIS IN HISTORICAL SCI-ART 16TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURIES
(ORIGINAL WORKS ON PAPER):

Coati drawn by Frei Cristovão de Lisboa, Historia dos animais d arvores do Maranhão, Brazil, 1620s (facsimile ed. Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Lisbon, 1967)
https://purl.pt/38130/1/html/index.html#/298-299

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17th century (16??), Southern Germany, from an album of watercolours of mammals, birds, insects and plants including German legends (appear derived from Gessner, etc.), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Ms Rh hist 161, [29]24: https://doi.org/10.7891/e-manuscripta-681

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Icones Animalium

Icones Animalium

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#095 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/mexican-coati-or-coatimundi

#096 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/white-nosed-coati

#101 https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/white-nosed-coati-2

175-

175-

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:18222

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:18222

Nicolas Robert (French, 1614-1685)
from an album of 65 drawings entitled ‘Roberts’s Drawings of Plants, Birds, Shells &c. Vol. II’
Production date: 1625-1684
Watercolor and bodycolor on vellum
H 249 mm x W 387 mm
British Museum collection SL,5278.23 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_SL-5278-23

Nicolas Robert (French, 1614-1685)
Cod. Min. 52, vol. 5, fol. 274r: Collection of birds of the Royal Menagerie of the Park of Versailles
Full page: animal study (coati, ‘Coati Mondi. Animal du Bresil’). Tempera on parchment, Paris, 3rd quarter of the 17th c. – Austrian National Library
https://onb.digital/result/BAG_5037632

Coatis in a 17th-century album of quadruped illustrations held by the British Museum
Drawings of Quadrupeds/Mus. Brit./Bibl. Sloan./5261/Plut. XLIV.B [album SL,5261.1 to 167]

Coatis in a 17th-century album of quadruped illustrations held by the British Museum
Drawings of Quadrupeds/Mus. Brit./Bibl. Sloan./5261/Plut. XLIV.B [album SL,5261.1 to 167]

1809
https://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/medias/doc/EXPLOITATION/IFD/MNHN_VEL_PORTEFEUILLE070_FOL093/coati-brun-wailly-leon-de

1809
https://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/medias/doc/EXPLOITATION/IFD/MNHN_VEL_PORTEFEUILLE070_FOL093/coati-brun-wailly-leon-de

Peter Paillou (c. 1720- c. 1790), original watercolors for the paper museum of Taylor White (1701-1772), created between 1744-1772

Tomás de Suría (1761-1844), Cuadrúpedo : tejón [coatí]
Acapulco, México, Malaspina Expedition (1789-1794)
https://bibliotecavirtual.defensa.gob.es/BVMDefensa/i18n/consulta/registro.do?id=60330

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Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858), 1822, watercolor?
(reproduced in a 2013 book, need info on original work) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Moritz_Rugendas_Nasua_nasua_1822.jpg

Bundi version

Bundi version

2. COATIS IN NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION 16TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURIES
(PRINT MEDIA):

Gessner 1554
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/136325#page/26/

Aldrovandi 1637
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_TP1fa3UWwh8C/page/n298/

Piso & Marcgrave HNB 1648
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10338#page/373/

Topsell History of Four-Footed Beasts 1658 (copied from Gessner)
https://archive.org/details/historyoffourfoo00tops/page/425/mode/1up

Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630)https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200263598

Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630)https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200263598

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nasua_narica_-1700-1880–Print–Iconographia_Zoologica–Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam-_UBA01_IZ22600151.tif

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nasua_narica_-1700-1880–Print–Iconographia_Zoologica–Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam-_UBA01_IZ22600151.tif

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➡️REFERENCES

➡️APPENDIX: COATI HISTORICAL NATURAL HISTORY ART & SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION (16TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURIES) IMAGE BANK

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