Desert locust
Date
1809
Creator
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1750 - 1812, German) , Printmaker
After
James Grey Jackson (British) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
RCN45924
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 271mm
width (print): 271mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Entomological study of the Desert locust Schistocerca gregaria, here referred to as ‘Jeraad‘. Side view of the insect, native to Africa and the Middle East.
Plate 3 from the book An account of the Empire of Marocco, and the district of Suse… by James Grey Jackson (London, W. Bulmer and Co., for the author, 1809).
The plate is inscribed below: ‘Jeraada a Locust, natural size. Drawn by J.G. Jackson. Engraved by J.C. Stadler. London. Published March 1st 1809. by G. & W. Nicholl, Pall Mall.’
The accompanying text states that: ‘This destructive creature, which the French call sauterelle, confounding it with the common grasshopper, differs very much from that insect, in the direful effects and devastation it causes…Locusts are produced from some unknown physical cause and proceed from the Desert, always coming from the south.’
Plate 3 from the book An account of the Empire of Marocco, and the district of Suse… by James Grey Jackson (London, W. Bulmer and Co., for the author, 1809).
The plate is inscribed below: ‘Jeraada a Locust, natural size. Drawn by J.G. Jackson. Engraved by J.C. Stadler. London. Published March 1st 1809. by G. & W. Nicholl, Pall Mall.’
The accompanying text states that: ‘This destructive creature, which the French call sauterelle, confounding it with the common grasshopper, differs very much from that insect, in the direful effects and devastation it causes…Locusts are produced from some unknown physical cause and proceed from the Desert, always coming from the south.’
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