‘The Black Iguana’
Date
c.1896
Creator - Organisation
Frederick Warne & Company, Publisher
After
Pierre Jacques Smit (1863 - 1960, Dutch) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
51310
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 255mm
width (print): 165mm
width (print): 165mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of a black iguana on a banana plant, possibly the rhinoceros iguana (Cyclura cornuta) native to the West Indies.
Plate facing p.128 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.5 (Frederick Warne, London 1896).
Signed lower right: ‘P J Smit’. Title appears below the image: ‘THE BLACK IGUANA’.
Richard Lydekker (1849-1915) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894.
Plate facing p.128 in the book The royal natural history edited by Richard Lydekker...vol.5 (Frederick Warne, London 1896).
Signed lower right: ‘P J Smit’. Title appears below the image: ‘THE BLACK IGUANA’.
Richard Lydekker (1849-1915) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894.
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