Boars/Pigs

Boars on Heraldic Art.

 

Tomb Model of a Boar Crouching (Brooklyn Museum 34.884). China - 618-906

Peccary Effigy Vessel (Brooklyn Museum 31.1685). Costa Rica - 800-1200

Peccary Figurine (Brooklyn Museum 34.2062). 1000-1550

Two boars (Morgan Library & Museum MS M.500 fol. 25r), late 13th C. 

Boar (The Met 1987.142.259), 14th C.

Boar, Der Naturen Bloeme (British Library, Add. MS 11390, fol 12r), ca. 1300-1325 

Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman (The Met 29.160.22), 1341

Pilgrim's badge (British Museum 1904,0720.12), 1350-1400

Piggy bank (Cleveland Museum of Art 1980.16), 14th-15th C.

Livery badge (British Museum 2003,0505.1), 15th C.

Pendant (British Museum 1882,1011.19), 15th C. 

Piggy bank (Ashmolean EA1997.5), 15th C.

Family of boars, Livre de la chasse (PML M.1044, fol. 1v). France - c. 1410 

Basin (V&A Museum 2592-1856). Italy - late 15th C.

Plaquette (British Museum 1915,1216.137), late 15th C. 

A boar in a bishop's mitre rides a camel book of hours (PML M.358 fol. 13r), ca. 1440-1450

Family of pigs (British Museum 1845,0809.299), 1470-1482

Fol. 6r, the Hours of Charles d’Angoulême (BNF Latin 1173, fol. 6r). France - 1475-1500

February, Grimani Breviary (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Ms. lat. I 99). Italy - c. 1490-1510  

Boar hunt (V&A Museum E.623-1991). Belgium - 16th C.

Cameo (British Museum 1883,1031.3), 16th C.

Monumental brass (British Museum 1905,0215.1), 16th C.

Piggy bank (Ashmolean HCR7420), 16th C.

Boar hunt (British Museum 1856,0614.144), mid-16th C.

Boar head (British Museum SL,5219.39), late 16th C.

Book of hours (BNF Latin 886, fol. 9v). France - 1500

Calydonian boar (British Museum 1878,0713.4153), 1500-1510

Print (V&A Museum 15906). Italy - 1509

Hunter on Horseback Hunting Wild Boar by Lucas Cranach the Elder (National Gallery of Art 1943.3.2852). Germany – ca. 1506

Boar hunt (British Museum 1895,0122.270), 1506-1507 

Hunting and dancing tapestry (National Gallery of Art 2014.136.301). France – ca. 1510

Boar hunt (British Museum 1911,0708.92), 1511

November, The Da Costa Hours (PML M.399, fol. 12v). Belgium - c. 1515 

Monstrous boar (British Museum 1854,0614.396), 1520-1550

Two pigs (Kunstgewerbemuseum F 2773 i). Germany - ca. 1525

The Boar Hunt by Hans Wertinger (Brooklyn Museum 49.230). Germany - ca. 1525-30 

Etching by Virgil Solis (V&A Museum 13844:3). Germany - 1530-1562 

Erymanthian boar (British Museum 1845.0809.1670.), 1528 

Fallen boar (British Museum 1863,0725.1546), 1532

Print (British Museum 1949,1008.348), 1530-1560

Ten subjects of antiquities (British Museum 1874,0808.427-439), 1530-1561 

Ornament print (British Museum 1873,0809.895), 1530-1562

Boar hunt (British Museum 1837,0616.65), 1530-1600

Boar hunt (British Museum SL,5219.127), 1535-1590

Boar hunt (British Museum 1837,0616.55), 1540

Peccary (Codex Mendoza fol. 51r), 1541

Forest scene (British Museum 1982,U.2519), ca. 1544-1552 

Two wild boars (British Museum 1982,U.2359), ca. 1544-1552

Dutch Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Gemäldegalerie 1720). 1559 

Simplex glyph (Matrícula de Huexotzinco, fol. 499v), 1560

Hercules Capturing the Caledonian Boar (British Museum F,1.284), 1563

Boar & donkey (British Museum 1868,0612.132), 1567

Lion & boar, (British Museum 1868,0612.179), 1567

Worker & his dogs (British Museum 1868,0612.194), 1567

Boar hunt (British Museum 1870,0514.378), 1568-1596 

Boar hunt (British Museum 1870,0514.1233), 1570

Calydonian boar (British Museum 1937,0424.19), 1574

Badger hunt (British Museum 1957,0413.239), 1574-1576

Ornament print (British Museum 1917,1208.4549), 1575-1600

Peccary (Florentine Codex fol. ir), 1577

Boar hunt (British Museum 1957,0413.90), 1578

Printer's mark (British Museum 1985,1031.1108), 1581

Boar hunt (British Museum 1923,0306.1.6), 1582

Wolf & boar (British Museum 1952,0522.1.4), 1586

Emblem (British Museum 1875,0410.166), 1592-3

 

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