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Image number: RS.9934
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‘Argonauta argo’ [Greater argonaut]
Date
1848
Creator
Antoine Toussaint de Chazal (1793 - 1854, French) , Printmaker
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39244
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height (print): 412mm
width (print): 275mm
width (print): 275mm
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Description
Marine zoological study of the Greater Argonaut (Argonauta argo). The cephalopod is presented as if swimming.
Plate 1 bis in the section “G.Argonaut” from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles.., by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac (1786-1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802-1857) (Paris, 1848). Various inscriptions, including below: “Morelli et Siesto del. A. Chazal in lap.del. Lith de Delaporte. A.Argo, Linne.”
Plate 1 bis in the section “G.Argonaut” from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles.., by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac (1786-1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802-1857) (Paris, 1848). Various inscriptions, including below: “Morelli et Siesto del. A. Chazal in lap.del. Lith de Delaporte. A.Argo, Linne.”
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