Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12511

    Ringed seal

    Date
    1823
    Creator
    Johann Friedrich Schröter (1770 - 1836, German) , Engraver
    After
    Friedrich August Ludwig Thienemann (1793 - 1858, German) , Physician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 222mm
    width (print): 280mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > seal
    Description
    Zoological study of a juvenile (one year old) male Ringed seal Pusa hispida (here styled Phoca annellata). Side view, with other seals behind. The mammals are shown using breathing and diving holes in the ice.

    Plate 10 from the book Reise im Norden Europa's vorzuglich in Island in den Jahren 1820 bis 1821 angestellt, by F.A.L Thienemann and G.B. Gunther, 2 vols., (Leipzig, 1824).

    Inscribed above: ‘Tab.X.’ Inscribed below: ‘Auct. ad nat. del. Isl. J.F.
    Schröter sc. Phoca annellata. Nils. Mas annotinus.’

    Friedrich August Ludwig Thienemann (1793-1858) German physician and ornithologist embarked on a tour of Norway and Iceland with Gustav Biedermann Günther (1801-1866) German surgeon, during the years 1819-1820.
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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