‘La Musaraigne d’Eau’ (Water shrew)
Date
1760
Creator
Antoine Jean de Fehrt (1723 - 1778, French) , Printmaker
After
Jacques Eustache de Sève (1790, French) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
RCN30833
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 257mm
width (print): 185mm
width (print): 185mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological and anatomical studies of the Eurasian water shrew Neomys fodiens.
Figure 1 (above) side view of the mammal near water, with a ruined building behind. Figure 2 (below) the skeletal structure of the shrew, presented on a natural stone plinth.
Plate 11 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: ‘LA MUSARAIGNE D’EAU. Tom VIII Pl.XI Pag.80.’ Inscribed below: ‘Buveé l’Am del. de Fehrt 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.
Figure 1 (above) side view of the mammal near water, with a ruined building behind. Figure 2 (below) the skeletal structure of the shrew, presented on a natural stone plinth.
Plate 11 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: ‘LA MUSARAIGNE D’EAU. Tom VIII Pl.XI Pag.80.’ Inscribed below: ‘Buveé l’Am del. de Fehrt 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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