Lioness
Date
1688
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
After
the elder Le Clerc (1637 - 1714, French) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
57977
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 300mm
width (page): 200mm
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (page): 200mm
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological and anatomical study of a lioness, Panthera leo, shown in motion, in left profile, on a rocky plain [below] and dissected, with various individual bones and organs depicted [above], such as: the stomach, spleen, vena cava, bladder and more.
Inscribed above: ‘pag. 12’
Written in the associated explanation: ‘The Posture is such, that it is easie to Remark what is most Particular in this Lyonness. The Head is side-wayes, the better to demonstrate the length of her Chops, which was not short and well-set like the Lyons. It do's likewise more distinctly shew the smallness of the Neck, which made the Head to be shrunk between the Shoulders.’
Unnumbered plate from a translated edition of Charles Perrault’s Memoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux: Memoir's for a natural history of animals containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, Englished by A.P. (London, 1688). A work of comparative anatomy featuring specimens from the Royal menageries at Vincennes and Versailles.
Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French author, naturalist and member of the Académie Française. The translator (‘A. P’), Alexander Pitfeild (c.1658-1728), was a merchant and Fellow of the Royal Society, elected in 1684, Council Member throughout the late 17th century and Treasurer between 1700-1728.
Inscribed above: ‘pag. 12’
Written in the associated explanation: ‘The Posture is such, that it is easie to Remark what is most Particular in this Lyonness. The Head is side-wayes, the better to demonstrate the length of her Chops, which was not short and well-set like the Lyons. It do's likewise more distinctly shew the smallness of the Neck, which made the Head to be shrunk between the Shoulders.’
Unnumbered plate from a translated edition of Charles Perrault’s Memoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux: Memoir's for a natural history of animals containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, Englished by A.P. (London, 1688). A work of comparative anatomy featuring specimens from the Royal menageries at Vincennes and Versailles.
Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French author, naturalist and member of the Académie Française. The translator (‘A. P’), Alexander Pitfeild (c.1658-1728), was a merchant and Fellow of the Royal Society, elected in 1684, Council Member throughout the late 17th century and Treasurer between 1700-1728.
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