Tapir
Date
1879
Creator
Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (1842 - 1912, Dutch) , Illustrator
Creator - Organisation
M & N Hanhart, Lithographer
Object type
Library reference
41158
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 241mm
width (page): 310mm
width (page): 310mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of a South American tapir, Tapirus terrestris [listed here as Tapirus dowi], in profile, on a reedy shoreline.
Table 9 from Biologia centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and central America, the Mammalia volume, authored by Edward Aliston and co-edited by Frederick Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin.
Inscribed above: ‘Biol Centr Am Mammalia Tab IX’, and below: ‘J. G. Keulemans lith TAPIRUS DOWI Hanhart imp. 230’.
Written in the associated text: ‘Our plate represents the full-grown but not quite adult specimen in the Paris Museum.’
Frederick Du Cane Godman (1834-1919) British entomologist and ornithologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1882.
Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) British naturalist and ornithologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873.
Table 9 from Biologia centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and central America, the Mammalia volume, authored by Edward Aliston and co-edited by Frederick Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin.
Inscribed above: ‘Biol Centr Am Mammalia Tab IX’, and below: ‘J. G. Keulemans lith TAPIRUS DOWI Hanhart imp. 230’.
Written in the associated text: ‘Our plate represents the full-grown but not quite adult specimen in the Paris Museum.’
Frederick Du Cane Godman (1834-1919) British entomologist and ornithologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1882.
Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) British naturalist and ornithologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873.
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