‘L’Ours Brun’ (Brown bear)
Date
1760
Creator
Jean Charles Baquoy (1721 - 1777, 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
Zoological study of the Brown bear Ursus arctos. Side view, in a natural landscape. At the period of this illustration, the beat was native to the European Alps (and has since been reintroduced).
Plate 31 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: ‘Tom VIII Pl.XXXI Pag.280.’ Inscribed below: ‘L’OURS BRUN, des Alpes. De Seve delin. 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 31 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: ‘Tom VIII Pl.XXXI Pag.280.’ Inscribed below: ‘L’OURS BRUN, des Alpes. De Seve delin. 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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