Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13471

    ‘La Brebis’ (Ewe)

    Date
    1755
    Creator
    Jean Charles Baquoy (1721 - 1777, French) , Engraver
    Object type
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 257mm
    width (print): 360mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > sheep
    Description
    Zoological study of the female of the domestic sheep Ovis aries. The ewe is shown in a natural landscape with a building behind.

    Plate 2 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.II. pag.52.’ Inscribed below: ‘LA BREBIS. Buveé l’Ameriquin del. 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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          > France
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