‘Le Belier’ (Ram)
Date
1755
Creator
Jean Charles Baquoy (1721 - 1777, French) , Engraver
After
Jacques de Sève (1712, French) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 257mm
width (print): 360mm
width (print): 360mm
Subject
Description
Zoological study of the male of the domestic sheep Ovis aries. The ram is shown in a natural landscape with a village behind.
Plate 1 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 5, (Paris, 1755).
The plate is inscribed above: ‘Tom V. Pl.I. pag.52.’ Inscribed below: ‘LE BELIER. De Seve delin. 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 1 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 5, (Paris, 1755).
The plate is inscribed above: ‘Tom V. Pl.I. pag.52.’ Inscribed below: ‘LE BELIER. De Seve delin. 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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