[The Buffalo] – Historic Reproduction
![[The Buffalo], 1699 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c8/c8120331aa01-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique engraving of [The Buffalo] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[The Buffalo]
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Louis Hennepin's *A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America* includes this engraving of a buffalo on page 8 of part 1, and the catalog also tags it with a pelican and an opossum. Hennepin, a Recollect friar, traveled the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi region for France in the late 1670s and wrote about what he saw. The London edition, printed for several booksellers, appeared in 1698, and the book's illustrations gave European readers some of their first printed views of animals from the interior of North America.
| Created / published | 1699 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1690-1700.Engravings 1690-1700. |
| Notes | Title devised by library staff. Illus. in: A new discovery of a vast country in America / Louis Hennepin. London : Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698, page 8 of part 1. |
| Subjects | Buffaloes--North America--1690-1700. Pelicans--North America--1690-1700. Opossums--North America--1690-1700. Discovery & exploration--French--North America--1690-1700. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,119 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111205 |
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