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C1837
Martin Chasseur Geant
Artist:
Scarce, early c.19th hand coloured etching of the Kookaburra. Common name: KookaburraBinomial name: Dacelo novaeguineaeFirst scientific description: Johann Hermann, 1783Distribution: Australian wide (Not NT) From: Guerin-Meneville, Dictionnaire pittoresque d’histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature. Paris References: Nissen, C. Die zoologische Buchillustration. … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Martin Chasseur Geant
Date:
C1837
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Etching with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
130mm
x 140mm
Paper Size:
177mm
x 176mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1837
Description:
Scarce, early c.19th hand coloured etching of the Kookaburra.
Common name: Kookaburra
Binomial name: Dacelo novaeguineae
First scientific description: Johann Hermann, 1783
Distribution: Australian wide (Not NT)
From: Guerin-Meneville, Dictionnaire pittoresque d’histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature. Paris
References:
Nissen, C. Die zoologische Buchillustration. 1969 Hamburg: BI 4616.
Collections:
State Library New South Wales: Record Identifier 74VvVbNapxN3
Edouard Guerin (1799 - 1874)
Guerin series Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier, was a complement to the work of the zoologists Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille, Le Règne Animal, which illustrated only a selection of the animals covered. He also founded several journals: Magasin de zoologie, d’anatomie comparée et de paléontologie (1830),Revue zoologique par la Société cuviérienne (1838),Revue et Magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée (1849), and Revue de sériciculture (1863). Guérin-Méneville was elected President of the Société Entomologique de France for the year 1846.
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