Cuvier Gallery

Great kiskadee, Pitangus sulphuratus, and Asian

Great kiskadee, Pitangus sulphuratus, and Asian paradise flycatcher, Terpsiphone paradisi.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Guyard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Narwal shrimp, leptostracan and mysid shrimp

Narwal shrimp, Plesionika narval 1-4, leptostracan, Nebalia herbstii 5, and mysid shrimp, Mysis oculata 6. Palemon pristis Palemone seghettato, Rostro del Palemo, Rostri del Palemone variabile, Nebalia d'Herbst, Misi del Fabricio. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration engraved by Corsi, drawn by Jean Gabriel Pretre and directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century

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Blue wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus

Blue wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus (brindled gnoo, Catoplebas gorgon). Handcoloured engraving by H. Kearsley after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith of a specimen in the Missionary Society Museum, London, from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1827. Date:

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