Onager
Date
1835
Creator
Legénissel (French) , Engraver
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Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 194mm
width (print): 257mm
width (print): 257mm
Subject
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Description
Zoological study of a female onager, Equus hemionus, also commonly known as the Hemione or the Asiatic wild ass. The animal is native to large areas of Asia, from the Arabian Peninsula to northern India and northern China. Side view.
Plate 8 accompanying the paper ‘Sur le genre cheval, et spécialment sur l’Hémione (Equus hemionus, Pall.)’, by H.D. De Blaineville, Novelles annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.4 (Paris, 1835) pp.97-120.
Inscribed below: ‘Hémione (Equus Hemionus, Pallas), femelle.Werner pinx. Borromée dir. Legénissel sc.’
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850), French zoologist and anatomist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1832.
Plate 8 accompanying the paper ‘Sur le genre cheval, et spécialment sur l’Hémione (Equus hemionus, Pall.)’, by H.D. De Blaineville, Novelles annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.4 (Paris, 1835) pp.97-120.
Inscribed below: ‘Hémione (Equus Hemionus, Pallas), femelle.Werner pinx. Borromée dir. Legénissel sc.’
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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