Pondicherry vulture
Date
1803
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of the Red-headed vulture, or Pondicherry vulture, Sarcogyps calvus, a bird native to the Indian subcontinent, and named after the region of Pondicherry [Puducherry, India]. Shown resting on a tree branch.
The accompanying text states that: ‘The individual from which the annexed engraving was taken (Plate X.) is now in the National Museum at Paris, and was found in India by Massé, the naturalist’.
Plate 10, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of the vulture of Ponicherry, By F.M. Daudin.’ The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.17, (1803-1804) pp.359-360.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.X. Vol.XVII.’. Inscribed below: ‘VULTURE OF PONDICHERRY.’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
François Marie Daudin (1776-1803), French zoologist.
The accompanying text states that: ‘The individual from which the annexed engraving was taken (Plate X.) is now in the National Museum at Paris, and was found in India by Massé, the naturalist’.
Plate 10, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of the vulture of Ponicherry, By F.M. Daudin.’ The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.17, (1803-1804) pp.359-360.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.X. Vol.XVII.’. Inscribed below: ‘VULTURE OF PONDICHERRY.’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
François Marie Daudin (1776-1803), French zoologist.
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