Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10587
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‘Ribbon Lizard and Broad-tailed Lizard’
Date
1790
Creator
Sarah Stone (1760 - 1844, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
22426
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 292mm
width (print): 225mm
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological studies of two lizards: figure 1, the Australian Striped Skink (Ctenotus taeniolatus); and figure 2 the Broad-tailed Gekko (Phyllurus platurus). Both reptiles are native to Australia.
Plate 32 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The plate is inscribed: “S.Stone delin. 1. Ribbon Lizard. 2. Broad-tailed Lizard. Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by J.Debrett.”
“The Public may rely, with the most perfect confidence, on the care and accuracy with which the Drawings have been copied from nature, by Miss Stone, Mr.Catton, Mr.Nodder, and other artists; and the Editor flatters himself the Engravings are all executed with equal correctness, by, or under the immediate inspection of Mr.Milton. The Birds, &c. from which the drawings were taken are deposited in the Leverian Museum.”
Plate 32 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The plate is inscribed: “S.Stone delin. 1. Ribbon Lizard. 2. Broad-tailed Lizard. Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by J.Debrett.”
“The Public may rely, with the most perfect confidence, on the care and accuracy with which the Drawings have been copied from nature, by Miss Stone, Mr.Catton, Mr.Nodder, and other artists; and the Editor flatters himself the Engravings are all executed with equal correctness, by, or under the immediate inspection of Mr.Milton. The Birds, &c. from which the drawings were taken are deposited in the Leverian Museum.”
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