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
width (print): 279mm
Subject
Content object
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.
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.
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