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Image number: RS.9975
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‘The female Zebra’
Date
1751
Creator
George Edwards (1694 - 1773, British) , Ornithologist
Object type
Library reference
38029
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 286mm
width (print): 220mm
width (print): 220mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of a female Zebra, [possibly the extinct sub-species Quagga, Equus quagga quagga] posed in a fenced landscape.
Plate 223 from chapter 13 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The author describes the animal within the text: “This curious animal was brought alive, together with the male, from the Cap eof Good Hope...this feamel lived several years at a house of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at Kew...It seemed to be of a savage and fierce nature...I never saw a skin brought over agreeing with this, which makes it a much greater curiosity than the male. I suppose the skins of the females are not counted so beautiful as those of the males, for which reason they are not brought to us.”
The plate is inscribed: “ZEBRA femina sive Assinus sylvestris Africanus. Drawn from the living Animal belonging to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. G. Edwards Del: Anno 1751.”
Plate 223 from chapter 13 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The author describes the animal within the text: “This curious animal was brought alive, together with the male, from the Cap eof Good Hope...this feamel lived several years at a house of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at Kew...It seemed to be of a savage and fierce nature...I never saw a skin brought over agreeing with this, which makes it a much greater curiosity than the male. I suppose the skins of the females are not counted so beautiful as those of the males, for which reason they are not brought to us.”
The plate is inscribed: “ZEBRA femina sive Assinus sylvestris Africanus. Drawn from the living Animal belonging to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. G. Edwards Del: Anno 1751.”
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