Angonoka tortoise
Date
1910
Creator
Louis Léchaudel (French) , Lithographer
After
Eugène Juillerat (1856, French) , Painter
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Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 244mm
width (print): 320mm
width (print): 320mm
Subject
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Description
Zoological study of the male angonoka tortoise Astrochelys yniphora (here styled Testudo hyniphora). The reptile is shown in a landscape at a forest edge with water. A second tortoise, sheltering in its shell, appears in the background. The tortoise is native to Madagascar and was first described by Léon Vaillant in 1885.
Plate 11 from the book Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar…volume XVII Histoire naturelle des reptiles, by Léon Vaillant and Guillaume Grandidier (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1910).
The plate is inscribed top: ‘Madagascar. Reptiles. Pl.11.’; and below: ‘Juillerat del. et pinx. L. Léchaudel lith. Testudo hyniphora male [symbol], Vaillant.’ An indication of scale ‘1/3’ is given behind the tortoise.
Léon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914) was a French zoologist.
Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957) was a French geographer and zoologist.
Plate 11 from the book Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar…volume XVII Histoire naturelle des reptiles, by Léon Vaillant and Guillaume Grandidier (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1910).
The plate is inscribed top: ‘Madagascar. Reptiles. Pl.11.’; and below: ‘Juillerat del. et pinx. L. Léchaudel lith. Testudo hyniphora male [symbol], Vaillant.’ An indication of scale ‘1/3’ is given behind the tortoise.
Léon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914) was a French zoologist.
Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957) was a French geographer and zoologist.
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