Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10839

    ‘South African Giraffes’

    Date
    c.1894
    Creator - Organisation
    Object type
    Library reference
    51310
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 225mm
    width (print): 165mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    African landscape with a herd of browsing giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis).

    Plate facing p.332 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.2 (Frederick Warne, London 1894).

    Not signed or inscribed by artist or printer. Title appears below the image: ‘SOUTH AFRICAN GIRAFFES’.

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