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Image number: RS.10237
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Five specimens of reptiles
Date
1721
Creator
T. Cole (British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
29715
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height (print): 261mm
width (print): 440mm
width (print): 440mm
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Description
Zoological studies of five types of lizards and snakes. Figure 1 “The Rattle-Snake from the West Indies; taken from one of those preserv’d in the Museum of the Royal Society.” Figure 2 “A West Indian serpent; taken from the original in the same Museum.” Figure 3 “A Lizard from Sir Hans Sloane’s Cabinet”. Figure 4 chameleon, “The Camelion; from the Royal Society.” Figure 5 “A Flying Lizard from Amboina in the East Indies; from my own collection...” [Ambon in the Moluka Islands, Indonesia, therefore Draco linneatus?]
Plate 9 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). The figures are represented as being on a single piece of paper pinned to the darkened background of the plate. Inscribed “Plate IX. T.Cole sculp.“
Richard Bradley (1688-1732) English botanist and writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. Figure 1 on this plate is a specimen from the Royal Society’s Repository.
Plate 9 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). The figures are represented as being on a single piece of paper pinned to the darkened background of the plate. Inscribed “Plate IX. T.Cole sculp.“
Richard Bradley (1688-1732) English botanist and writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. Figure 1 on this plate is a specimen from the Royal Society’s Repository.
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