Credit: © The Royal Society
                             
                         
                     
                         
                         
                             
                                 Image number: RS.9153
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Birds and a beetle from Linnaeus’s ‘Swedish Fauna’
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                                1746
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Creator
                            
                            
                                C Bergquist, Engraver
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Johan Leche (1704 - 1764, Swedish) , Botanist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Library reference
                            
                            
                                49593
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 175mm
width (print): 310mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 310mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Illustrations of birds and a beetle from Fauna Svecica (‘Swedish Fauna’), by Carl Linnaeus (Stockholm, 1746).
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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