Antique Print of a Male Zebra, '1758'

Reference
BG-12936-77
Date
1758
Region
Europe
Category
Engraving
Sheet size
22.0 x 29.0 cm (8.7 x 11.4 in)
Condition
Fair
Availability
Available
Price
EUR 500

Antique print titled 'ZEBRA mas, sive Assinus sylvestris Africanus. Drawn from a stuff’d Skin in the Royal College of Physicians, London'. Rare zoological study of a male Zebra, [type unknown, most likely the Plains Zebra, Equus quagga] posed in a landscape with a slightly raised left rear leg, showing the hoof.

Plate 222 from chapter 12 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758).

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