‘La Chauve-Souris’ (Bat)
Date
1760
Creator
Pierre Etienne Moitte (1722 - 1780, 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 a bat. Figure 1 (below) shows a bat on all fours. Figure 2 (above) shows a bat with outstretched wings.
Plate 16 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 CHAUVE-SOURIS, les Ailes etendues. Tom VIII Pl.XVI. Pag.154.’ Inscribed below: ‘LA CHAUVE-SOURIS sur ses quatre Jambes.
Buveé l’Ameriquain Del. Moitte Sc.’
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 16 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 CHAUVE-SOURIS, les Ailes etendues. Tom VIII Pl.XVI. Pag.154.’ Inscribed below: ‘LA CHAUVE-SOURIS sur ses quatre Jambes.
Buveé l’Ameriquain Del. Moitte Sc.’
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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