Iconography

IMAGE OF THE BLACK ARCHIVE

Voyages VIII. 1688-1699

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Geography / Topography / States and regions A-Z / South Africa / Cape of Good Hope
Geography / Types of people / Africans / Sub-Saharan Africans / Khoikhoi ('Hottentots')

SOCIAL LIFE

Occupations, trades and professions / Agricultural / Cow-blowing

Further details

Etching. Illustration for Meister, Kunst- und Lust-Gärtner, between pp. 252 & 253. To encourage a cow to produce milk, a man would blow into her vagina.

Artist or creator

Bodenehr, Moritz (1665-1748)

Date

1692

Location

London, British Library

Book, text or document (source of image)

Meister, George (1653-1713). Der Orientalisch-Indianische Kunst- und Lust-Gärtner…. Dresden. 1692.

Contact

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