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Artist:
Jacques Eustache de Seve (fl 1742 - 1788)
Rare copper engraving from Johann von Screber’s great zoological series, Die Säugethiere… Common name: Mandrill Modern binomial name: Mandrillus sphinx First described: Linnaeus, 1758 Distribution: Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo.
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Rare copper engraving from Johann von Screber’s great zoological series, Die Säugethiere…
Common name: Mandrill
Modern binomial name: Mandrillus sphinx
First described: Linnaeus, 1758
Distribution: Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo.
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 and not a metaphysical property. He also made a number of illustrations for Johann von Screber’s great zoological series, Die Säugethiere…
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