‘Le Fer-a-Cheval’ (Greater horseshoe bat)
Date
1760
Creator
Justus Chevillet (1729 - 1802, German) , Printmaker
After
Jean Charles Baquoy (1721 - 1777, 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 the Greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum. Figure 1 (above) shows mammal in a natural landscape. Figure 2 (below) shows the bat roosting.
Plate 20 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 FER-A-CHEVAL Tom VIII Pl.XX. Pag.154.’ Inscribed below: ‘LE FER-A-CHEVAL suspendu par les pieds. Buveé l’Ameriquain delin. Chevilet 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 20 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 FER-A-CHEVAL Tom VIII Pl.XX. Pag.154.’ Inscribed below: ‘LE FER-A-CHEVAL suspendu par les pieds. Buveé l’Ameriquain delin. Chevilet 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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