Dodo
Date
1835
Creator
Bièvre (French) , Lithographer
Object type
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Dimensions
height (print): 258mm
width (print): 325mm
width (print): 325mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of the Dodo, Raphus cucullatus, the extinct flightless bird from Mauritius. Side view of the head and bill.
Plate 1 accompanying the paper ‘Mémoire sur le Dodo, autrement dronte (Didus ineptus. L.)’, by H.D. De Blaineville, Novelles annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.4 (Paris, 1835) pp.1-36.
Inscribed above: ‘H. de Blainville. Memoires d’histoire naturelles. DODO PL.I.’ Inscribed below: ‘G. de Bièvre lith. Lith. E Engelmann rue du fy. Monmartre No.3’.
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850), French zoologist and anatomist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1832.
Plate 1 accompanying the paper ‘Mémoire sur le Dodo, autrement dronte (Didus ineptus. L.)’, by H.D. De Blaineville, Novelles annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.4 (Paris, 1835) pp.1-36.
Inscribed above: ‘H. de Blainville. Memoires d’histoire naturelles. DODO PL.I.’ Inscribed below: ‘G. de Bièvre lith. Lith. E Engelmann rue du fy. Monmartre No.3’.
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850), French zoologist and anatomist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1832.
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