Rhinoceros skeleton
Date
1804
Creator
John Lee (1781 - 1858, British) , Printmaker
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 128mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Anatomical study of an Indian rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis, a species native to the Indian subcontinent.
The accompanying text notes that: ‘The pieces which will serve as a basis to my description are the beautiful skeleton prepared by M. Mertrud, of the rhinoceros which lives twenty-one years in the menagerie at Versailles…’
Plate 7, illustrating the paper: ‘Osteological description of the one-horned Rhinoceros, by Cuvier’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.19, (1803-1804) pp.350-354.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol.XIX Pl.VII.’. Inscribed below: ‘Skeleton of the one-horned Rhinoceros. Jno. Lee sculp. 76’.
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), French naturalist and zoologist.
The accompanying text notes that: ‘The pieces which will serve as a basis to my description are the beautiful skeleton prepared by M. Mertrud, of the rhinoceros which lives twenty-one years in the menagerie at Versailles…’
Plate 7, illustrating the paper: ‘Osteological description of the one-horned Rhinoceros, by Cuvier’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.19, (1803-1804) pp.350-354.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol.XIX Pl.VII.’. Inscribed below: ‘Skeleton of the one-horned Rhinoceros. Jno. Lee sculp. 76’.
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), French naturalist and zoologist.
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