‘La Noctule et le Serotine’ (Common noctule and Serotine bats)
Date
1760
Creator
Charles Baron (1738 - 1770, French) , Printmaker
After
Jacques de Sève (1712, French) , Artist
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 bats. Figure 1 (below) shows the Common noctule Nyctalus noctula within a natural setting. Figure 2 (above) shows a Serotine bat Eptesicus serotinus within a roof or barn space.
Plate 18 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 NOCTULE. Tom VIII Pl.XVIII. Pag.154.’ Inscribed below: ‘LA SEROTINE. De Seve del. Barran. 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 18 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 NOCTULE. Tom VIII Pl.XVIII. Pag.154.’ Inscribed below: ‘LA SEROTINE. De Seve del. Barran. 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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