American crocodile
Date
1803
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 128mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Description
Zoological study of an American crocodile Crocodylus acutus, a reptile native to South and Central America, and the Caribbean islands.
The accompanying article states that: ‘The crocodile of St. Domingo resembles that of the Nile in regard to all those characters which serve to distinguish the latter from the caiman...it, however, has the jaws narrower and longer…making us believe that the crocodile of Saint Domingo forms a species distinct from that of the Nile.’.
Plate 5, illustrating the paper: ‘Account of a new kind of American crocodile. By E. Geoffroy’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.16, (1803) pp.233-235.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol.XVI. Pl.V’. Inscribed below: ‘Crocodile of St. Domingo. 63’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), French naturalist.
The accompanying article states that: ‘The crocodile of St. Domingo resembles that of the Nile in regard to all those characters which serve to distinguish the latter from the caiman...it, however, has the jaws narrower and longer…making us believe that the crocodile of Saint Domingo forms a species distinct from that of the Nile.’.
Plate 5, illustrating the paper: ‘Account of a new kind of American crocodile. By E. Geoffroy’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.16, (1803) pp.233-235.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol.XVI. Pl.V’. Inscribed below: ‘Crocodile of St. Domingo. 63’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), French naturalist.
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