Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10027
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‘The Kolsun, or Wild Dog’ [Dhole]
Date
1833
Creator
printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850) English lithographer and draughtsman Thomas Fairland (1804 - 1852, British) , Lithographer
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Object type
Library reference
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Dimensions
height (print): 212mm
width (print): 266mm
width (print): 266mm
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Description
Zoological study of an Indian wild dog, or dhole (Cuon alpinus), shown bending towards animal bones in a plains landscape.
Plate from the paper ‘Description of the wild dog of the Western Ghats’, by William Henry Sykes (London, 1833). Originally published in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 3. Inscribed ‘THE KOLSUN or WILD DOG’ Class Mammalia Order Carnivora Tribe Digitigrada Genus Canis. Drawn by L.I.Fidler Draftsman to Lt. Col. Sykes. Printed by C. Hullmandel. Lithographed for the Royal Asiatic Society, by T. Fairland.’
Plate from the paper ‘Description of the wild dog of the Western Ghats’, by William Henry Sykes (London, 1833). Originally published in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 3. Inscribed ‘THE KOLSUN or WILD DOG’ Class Mammalia Order Carnivora Tribe Digitigrada Genus Canis. Drawn by L.I.Fidler Draftsman to Lt. Col. Sykes. Printed by C. Hullmandel. Lithographed for the Royal Asiatic Society, by T. Fairland.’
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