Madagascan big-headed turtle
Date
1910
Creator
Louis Léchaudel (French) , Lithographer
After
Eugène Juillerat (1856, French) , Painter
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Dimensions
height (print): 322mm
width (print): 474mm
width (print): 474mm
Subject
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Description
Zoological study of the Madagascan big-headed turtle Erymnochelys madagascariensis. With an inset side-view detail of the reptile’s head.
Plates 22-23 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.22-23.’; and below: ‘Juillerat del. et pinx. L. Léchaudel lith. Erymnochelys madagascariensis, Grandidier.’
Léon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914) was a French zoologist.
Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957) was a French geographer and zoologist.
Plates 22-23 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.22-23.’; and below: ‘Juillerat del. et pinx. L. Léchaudel lith. Erymnochelys madagascariensis, Grandidier.’
Léon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914) was a French zoologist.
Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957) was a French geographer and zoologist.
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