Jaguarundi
Date
1821
Creator - Organisation
W & D Lizars, Engraver
After
Thomas Stewart Traill (1781 - 1862, British) , Physician
Object type
Library reference
RCN32515
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 125mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of the Jaguarundi, or Eyra cat Puma yagouaroundi (here referred to as Felis unicolour) a small cat native to Central and South America.
Plate 10 accompanying the paper ‘Description of a new species of Felis from Guyana’, by Thomas Stewart Traill, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, v.3 1817-1820, pp.170-173 (Edinburgh, 1821). Inscribed above: ‘PLATE X Wern. Mem. Vol.III. p.170’. Inscribed below: ‘W.& D. Lizars Sculpt.’ The plate is captioned below: ‘THE SPOTLESS CAT. (FELIS UNICOLOUR.)’
Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862), physician and specialist in medical jurisprudence, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
Plate 10 accompanying the paper ‘Description of a new species of Felis from Guyana’, by Thomas Stewart Traill, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, v.3 1817-1820, pp.170-173 (Edinburgh, 1821). Inscribed above: ‘PLATE X Wern. Mem. Vol.III. p.170’. Inscribed below: ‘W.& D. Lizars Sculpt.’ The plate is captioned below: ‘THE SPOTLESS CAT. (FELIS UNICOLOUR.)’
Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862), physician and specialist in medical jurisprudence, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
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