‘La Belette et L’Hermine’ (Weasel and Stoat)
Date
1758
Creator
[?] Michel Aubert (1699 - 1757, French) , Printmaker
After
Jean Charles Baquoy (1721 - 1777, French) , Draughtsman
Object type
Library reference
RCN30833
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 257mm
width (print): 185mm
width (print): 185mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Two zoological studies of European small mammals. Figure 1 (above) shows the Weasel, Mustela nivalis. Figure 2 (below) shows the Stoat, Mustela ermine, in its ermine winter coat.
Plate 29 from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Louis Jean Marie Daubenton, volume 7, (Paris, 1758).
The plate is inscribed above: ‘LA BELETTE. Tom VIII Pl.XXIX. pag.248.’ Inscribed below: ‘L’HERMINE. Buveé l’Ameriquain delin. M. Aubert sculp.’
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Louis Jean Marie Daubenton (1716-1800), French naturalist and encyclopaedist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755.
Plate 29 from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Louis Jean Marie Daubenton, volume 7, (Paris, 1758).
The plate is inscribed above: ‘LA BELETTE. Tom VIII Pl.XXIX. pag.248.’ Inscribed below: ‘L’HERMINE. Buveé l’Ameriquain delin. M. Aubert sculp.’
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Louis Jean Marie Daubenton (1716-1800), French naturalist and encyclopaedist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755.
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