C1775

Simia Satyrus

Artist:

Jacques Eustache de Seve (fl.1742 - 1788)

$A 110

Rare copper engraving of the CHIMPANZEE MODERN BINOMIAL NAME: Pan troglodytes DISTRIBUTION: Tropical forests and wet savannas of Western and Central Africa. From Johann von Screber’s great zoological series, Die Säugethiere…

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S/N: DSIA-002A-ANI-OS–218922
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Full Title:

Simia Satyrus

Date:

C1775

Artist:

Jacques Eustache de Seve (fl.1742 - 1788)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured copper engraving.

Image Size: 

176mm 
x 169mm

Paper Size: 

197mm 
x 250mm

Platemark Size: 

177mm 
x 233mm
AUTHENTICITY
Simia Satyrus - Antique Print from 1775

Genuine antique
dated:

1775

Description:

Rare copper engraving of the CHIMPANZEE

MODERN BINOMIAL NAME: Pan troglodytes
DISTRIBUTION: Tropical forests and wet savannas of Western and Central Africa.

From Johann von Screber’s great zoological series, Die Säugethiere…

Artist:

Jacques Eustache de Seve (fl 1742-1788)

French artist and illustrator commissioned by Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon to provide the illustrations for Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Buffon was one of the first to recognise that all living organisms were fundamentally similar, whether they were plant or animal & that life itself was a physical characteristic of matter & not a metaphysical property.

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