Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10835

    ‘Jaguar killing Tapir’

    Date
    c.1893-1894
    Creator - Organisation
    After
    Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865 - 1926, German) , Painter
    Object type
    Library reference
    51310
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 165mm
    width (print): 255mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Landscape showing the American jaguar (Panthera onca) killing a tapir (Tapirus terrestris?) near a waterhole.

    Plate facing p.394 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.1 (Frederick Warne, London 1893-1894).

    Signed lower left: ‘W.Kuhnert’. Title appears below the image: ‘JAGUAR KILLING TAPIR’.

    Richard Lydekker (1849-1915) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894.
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