Chameleons
Date
1852
Creator
Marie Firmin Bocourt (1819 - 1904, French) , Artist
After
Alberti (French) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 296mm
width (print): 228mm
width (print): 228mm
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Description
Zoological studies of two chameleons. Figure 1. the Veiled chameleon Chamaeleo calyptratus, a reptile native to the Arabian peninsula. Figure 2. the Two-banded chameleon Furcifer balteatus (here referred to as Chamaeleo balteatus), native to Madagascar. Side views, each clinging to a tree branch.
Plate 21 accompanying the paper ‘Ordre des chéloniens et premières familles de l’ordre des sauriens (crocodiliens et caméléoniens), by Auguste Duméril, Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.8 (Paris, 1852) pp.209-264.
Inscribed above: ‘Archives du Muséum. T. VI Pl. XXI’. Inscribed below: ‘I. CAMELEON A CAPE. CHAMAELEO CALYPTRATUS, A. Dum. 2. CAMELEON A BAUDRIER. CHAMAELEO BALTEATUS. A. Dum. Alberti del. Bocourt Lith. Gide et J. Baudry éditeurs. Imp. Auguste Bry. Paris.’
Auguste Henri André Duméril (1812-1870) was a French zoologist.
Plate 21 accompanying the paper ‘Ordre des chéloniens et premières familles de l’ordre des sauriens (crocodiliens et caméléoniens), by Auguste Duméril, Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.8 (Paris, 1852) pp.209-264.
Inscribed above: ‘Archives du Muséum. T. VI Pl. XXI’. Inscribed below: ‘I. CAMELEON A CAPE. CHAMAELEO CALYPTRATUS, A. Dum. 2. CAMELEON A BAUDRIER. CHAMAELEO BALTEATUS. A. Dum. Alberti del. Bocourt Lith. Gide et J. Baudry éditeurs. Imp. Auguste Bry. Paris.’
Auguste Henri André Duméril (1812-1870) was a French zoologist.
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