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Antique Print of a Caiman and Common Wall Gecko
£205 ($270, €240)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- Not stated
- Size
- 6 × 9.2 in (15.3 × 23.4 cm)
- Condition
- Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and soiling. With original protective sheet attached. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
- Section
- Reptiles and amphibians
- Reference
- f_34624252
A caiman and a common wall gecko on one hand-colored engraving from the Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, edited by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny and published in 1861. The plate is headed "Dict. Univ. d'Hist. Nat." and "Reptiles", with a plate number at the upper right.
The lettering below lists "Ordre des Émydosauriens, Crocodiliens. 1. Caïman à museau de Brochet (Alligator lucius, Cuv.)" and "Ordre des Sauriens, Geckotiens. 2. Platydactyle des murailles (Platydactylus muralis, Dum. Bib.)", with their reduced scale noted. The caiman crawls along a muddy bank toward the water at lower right, drawn in olive and yellow with dark banding, with reeds behind it. The gecko clings to a pale rock at the upper left, in brown with a banded tail.
D'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist who identified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's collecting journeys through South America.
