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C1839
Potoroo
Artist:
Edouard Guerin (1799 - 1874)
Common names: Long-nosed Potoroo, Long-nosed Rat Kangaroo & Wallaby Rat. Binomial name: Potorous tridactylus First described Kerr 1792 Distribution WA, VIC, TAS, NSW & QLD. Reference The Mammals of Australia, Strahan, 2nd edition. Page 301, ill.302 … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Potoroo
Date:
C1839
Artist:
Edouard Guerin (1799 - 1874)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Image Size:
145mm
x 245mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1839
Description:
Common names: Long-nosed Potoroo, Long-nosed Rat Kangaroo & Wallaby Rat.
Binomial name: Potorous tridactylus
First described Kerr 1792
Distribution WA, VIC, TAS, NSW & QLD.
Reference The Mammals of Australia, Strahan, 2nd edition. Page 301, ill.302
From Dictionnaire Pittoresque d’Histoire Naturelle
Biography:
Edouard Guerin- (1799-1874)
His 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.
