‘La Taupe’ (Mole)
Date
1760
Creator
Jean Charles Baquoy (1721 - 1777, French) , Printmaker
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 European mole Talpa europaea. Figure 1 (above) side view of the mammal n a natural landscape with building behind. Figure 2 (below) shows the animal skinned.
Plate 12 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 TAUPE. Tom VIII Pl.XII. Pag.108.’ Inscribed below: ‘LA TAUPE Depouillé de sa Peau. Buveé l’Ameriquain del. C.Baquoy 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 12 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 TAUPE. Tom VIII Pl.XII. Pag.108.’ Inscribed below: ‘LA TAUPE Depouillé de sa Peau. Buveé l’Ameriquain del. C.Baquoy 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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