Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10008
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‘Antilope Grimmii’ [Common duiker antelope]
Date
1766
Creator
Johann Jacob Bylaert (1734 - 1809, Dutch) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X51/1
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 266mm
width (print): 212mm
width (print): 212mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of a male antelope from Africa, probably the Common duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, standing in an open landscape. The animal is shown with a large bird in the background, described as a ‘Rattling crane’, possibly intended as the Blue Crane Anthropoides paradisea.
Plate 1 from the book Miscellanea zoologica, quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur by P S Pallas (The Hague, 1766). An explanation to the plate appears in Latin: “Antilope Grimmia, a latere spectanda, pede altero sublato, velut inquieta. E longinquo apparet Grus crepitans, situ quiescentis.”
Inscribed above “Tab. I.”, and below “J.J.Bylaert Fec.”
Plate 1 from the book Miscellanea zoologica, quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur by P S Pallas (The Hague, 1766). An explanation to the plate appears in Latin: “Antilope Grimmia, a latere spectanda, pede altero sublato, velut inquieta. E longinquo apparet Grus crepitans, situ quiescentis.”
Inscribed above “Tab. I.”, and below “J.J.Bylaert Fec.”
Associated place