Long-nosed bandicoot
Date
1805
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 128mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of a long-nosed bandicoot, Perameles nasuta, the marsupial native to eastern Australia. With details of the skull, jaw, hind and fore-feet.
The accompanying article states that: ‘Their muzzle, which is much too long, gives them an air exceedingly stupid; but this dismal physiognomy is compensated by the lightness of their motions, and the gracefulness of their gait…’
Plate 1, illustrating the paper: ‘Memoir of a new genus of mammalia with pouches, named Perameles. By E. Geoffroy. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.21, (1805) pp.28-34.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.I Vol.XXI’. Inscribed below: ‘PERAMELES NASUTA. 81’.
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: ‘Their muzzle, which is much too long, gives them an air exceedingly stupid; but this dismal physiognomy is compensated by the lightness of their motions, and the gracefulness of their gait…’
Plate 1, illustrating the paper: ‘Memoir of a new genus of mammalia with pouches, named Perameles. By E. Geoffroy. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.21, (1805) pp.28-34.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.I Vol.XXI’. Inscribed below: ‘PERAMELES NASUTA. 81’.
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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