Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10843

    ‘The Black Iguana’

    Date
    c.1896
    Creator - Organisation
    After
    Pierre Jacques Smit (1863 - 1960, Dutch) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    51310
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 255mm
    width (print): 165mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    nature
       > landscape
    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.
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