Red-bellied titi
Date
1844
Creator
Borromée (French) , Printmaker
After
Jean-Charles Werner (1798 - 1856, French) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 299mm
width (print): 227mm
width (print): 227mm
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Description
Zoological study of the Red-bellied titi, or Dusky titi, Callicebus moloch (here referred to as Callithrix moloch) shown on a tree branch and holding a fruit. This South American monkey is native to Brazil.
Plate 3 accompanying the paper ‘Singes Américaines’ by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.4 (Paris, 1844) pp.5-42.
Inscribed above: ‘Archives du Muséum. Tome 4 Pl. III’. Inscribed below: ‘2/3 (3) CALLITHRICHE MOLOCH, CALLITHRIX MOLOCH, Is. Geoff. Werner pinx. Borromée Dir.’
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) French zoologist.
Plate 3 accompanying the paper ‘Singes Américaines’ by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.4 (Paris, 1844) pp.5-42.
Inscribed above: ‘Archives du Muséum. Tome 4 Pl. III’. Inscribed below: ‘2/3 (3) CALLITHRICHE MOLOCH, CALLITHRIX MOLOCH, Is. Geoff. Werner pinx. Borromée Dir.’
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) French zoologist.
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