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(Mammifères, Pl. 17.)
Artist
- Name:
- Traviès, Édouard
- Dates:
- 1809-1876
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals
- Technique:
- Metal engraving
- Engraver:
- Annedouche, Christophe
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- NCSU Libraries, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, atlas, vol. 1
- Author(s):
- Orbigny, Charles Henry Dessalines d'
- Publisher:
- Paris: Renard, Martinet et Cie., 1849
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Hand-colored steel engraving showing a mouse opossum (Marmosa murina) seen from the side carrying her litter on her back. Linnaeus’s mouse opossum is a marsupial in the family Didelphidae, native to South America.
The full caption reads in the original French:
2éme série. Quadrupèdes à os marsupiaux. (Is. G. St. Hil.)
1er ordre — Marsupiaux carnassiers. 2. Didelphe marmose (Didelphis murina, Lin.). 1/2 de grand. natur.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, color, Didelphidae, mammal, marsupial, reference book
