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Wild boar

Images

  • A butcher swinging a string of sausages from a knife rides on the back of a large black boar. Etching, 1774.
  • A wild boar lies tied by its rear feet next to an open tavern door. Etching by Rembrandt, ca 1645.
  • A thistle in the centre with a boar to the left facing a mastiff to the right, all surrounded by various plants and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
  • A huntsman sitting on a tree is about to shoot a lynx that has pounced upon a wild boar. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Vishnu in his incarnation as Varaha, the boar. Engraving, 1672.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A boar. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 178-.

    Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?] | Reference: 750583i
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    An African boar. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 178-.

    Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?] | Reference: 750584i
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    Hooves of ungulates: hippopotamus (two figures), and wild boar (three figures). Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.

    Ruprecht, H.J. | Date: [1877] | Reference: 578970i
    • Books

    Pig/pork : archaeology, zoology and edibility / Pía Spry-Marqués.

    Spry-Marqués, Pía | Date: 2017
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    • Online

    A thistle in the centre with a boar to the left facing a mastiff to the right, all surrounded by various plants and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

    Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677. | Date: [1674] | Reference: 24376i
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