C1775

Simia Talapoin

Artist:

Jacques Eustache de Seve (fl.1742 - 1788)

Rare copper engraving  of the ANGOLAN TALAPOIN. Modern binominal name: Miopithecus talapoin Distribution: Found in Angola and the Congo. From Johann von Screber’s great zoological series, Die Säugethiere…

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S/N: DSIA-017-ANI-OS–218927
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Full Title:

Simia Talapoin

Date:

C1775

Artist:

Jacques Eustache de Seve (fl.1742 - 1788)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured copper engraving.

Image Size: 

166mm 
x 144mm

Paper Size: 

196mm 
x 249mm

Platemark Size: 

178mm 
x 233mm
AUTHENTICITY
Simia Talapoin - Antique Print from 1775

Genuine antique
dated:

1775

Description:

Rare copper engraving  of the ANGOLAN TALAPOIN.

Modern binominal name: Miopithecus talapoin
Distribution: Found in Angola and the Congo.

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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