Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.9853
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    ‘Lacertilia’ [lizards]

    Date
    1899
    Creator
    Adolf Giltsch (1852 - 1911, German) , Lithographer
    After
    Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919, German) , Biologist
    Object type
    Library reference
    42553
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 357mm
    width (print): 279mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > lizard
    Description
    Zoological study of eight lizards set within a landscape with rocks and trees:

    1 Chamaeleon montium; 2 Lophyrus tigrinus; 3 Draconellus volans; 4 Phrynosoma cornutum; 5 Ptychozoon homalocephalum; 6 Basiliscus americanus; 7 Chlamydosaurus kingie; 8 Moloch horridus.

    Plate 79 from Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig, Wien, Bibliographische Institut, 1899-1904).

    Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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