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Antique Print of a Male Zebra, '1758'
$560 (£425, €500)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1758
- Size
- 8.7 × 11.4 in (22 × 29 cm)
- Technique
- Engraved
- Condition
- Fair. Age-related toning. Shows some wear and creasing, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
- Period
- 18th century
- Section
- Mammals
- Reference
- f_23513302
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).
