‘Le Conchon de Siam’ (Siamese pig)
Date
1755
Creator
Pierre Etienne Moitte (1722 - 1780, French) , Engraver
After
Jean Charles Baquoy (1721 - 1777, French) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 257mm
width (print): 360mm
width (print): 360mm
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Description
Zoological study of the female of a ‘Siamese’ (Thai) breed of domestic pig Sus scrofa. Side view within a natural landscape and a single building behind, with a stream and culvert in the foreground.
Plate 15 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.XV. pag.176.’ Inscribed below: ‘LE CONCHON DE SIAM. Buveé l’Ameriquain del. Moitte 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 15 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.XV. pag.176.’ Inscribed below: ‘LE CONCHON DE SIAM. Buveé l’Ameriquain del. Moitte 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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