Silky sifaka
Date
1875
Creator
Marie Firmin Bocourt (1819 - 1904, French) , Biologist
Auguste Faguet (1841 - 1886, French) , Illustrator
Auguste Faguet (1841 - 1886, French) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (print): 306mm
width (print): 222mm
width (print): 222mm
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Description
Zoological study of the Silky sifaka, Propithecus candidus (here styled Propithecus diadema var. sericeus), a lemur native to Madagascar. The primate is shown in a forest landscape.
Plate 2 from the book Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar…volume IX Histoire naturelle des mammifères, by Alphonse Milne Edwards and Alfred Grandidier (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1875).
The plate is inscribed top: ‘Madagascar. Mammifères. Pl.2’ ; and below: ‘Bocourt et Faguet pinxt. Imp. Becquet à Paris. Propithecus diadema var.sericeus.’
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French mammalologist and ornithologist.
Alfred Grandidier (1836-1921) French naturalist and explorer.
Plate 2 from the book Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar…volume IX Histoire naturelle des mammifères, by Alphonse Milne Edwards and Alfred Grandidier (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1875).
The plate is inscribed top: ‘Madagascar. Mammifères. Pl.2’ ; and below: ‘Bocourt et Faguet pinxt. Imp. Becquet à Paris. Propithecus diadema var.sericeus.’
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French mammalologist and ornithologist.
Alfred Grandidier (1836-1921) French naturalist and explorer.
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