The Genius of Nature contemplating the Universe
Date
1799
Creator
Blanchard (French) , Engraver
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Image reference
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Dimensions
height (print): 206mm
width (print): 132mm
width (print): 132mm
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Description
Allegorical scene showing a winged figure swathed in clouds above the Earth and the Moon, with the Sun behind. The constellations of Libra, Scorpio and Centaurus are also shown.
Plate (not numbered) from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére…Nouvelle edition, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and C.S. Sonnini, volume 1 (Paris 1799). The illustration is bound between p.18 and p.19.
Inscribed above: ‘Tom. 1. P.81.’ Inscribed below: ‘Le Genie de la Nature dans la Contemplation de l’Univers. [The genius of Nature in the contemplation of the universe]. Blanchard Sc.’
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), French naturalist.
Plate (not numbered) from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére…Nouvelle edition, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and C.S. Sonnini, volume 1 (Paris 1799). The illustration is bound between p.18 and p.19.
Inscribed above: ‘Tom. 1. P.81.’ Inscribed below: ‘Le Genie de la Nature dans la Contemplation de l’Univers. [The genius of Nature in the contemplation of the universe]. Blanchard Sc.’
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), French naturalist.
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