‘Le Herisson’ (Hedgehog)
Date
1760
Creator
Pierre Francois Tardieu (1711 - 1771, French) , Printmaker
After
Jacques Eustache de Sève (1790, French) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
RCN30833
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 254mm
width (print): 350mm
width (print): 350mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Two zoological study of the European or common hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus. Figure 1 (above) is a side view of the mammal. Figure 2 reproduces the pose, but the creature is shown without spines. Both illustrations present the hedgehog in a natural environment.
Plate 6 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 8, (Paris, 1760).
The plate is inscribed above: ‘LE HERISSON. Tom VIII. Pl.VI. Pag.54.’ Inscribed below: ‘LE HERISSON depouillé de ses piquants. De Seve delin. P.F. Tardieu 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 6 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 8, (Paris, 1760).
The plate is inscribed above: ‘LE HERISSON. Tom VIII. Pl.VI. Pag.54.’ Inscribed below: ‘LE HERISSON depouillé de ses piquants. De Seve delin. P.F. Tardieu 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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