thing:T78054

Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)

Things – T78054

Saiga skeleton (Squelette de la Chèvre de Juda)

Part of Figures pour l'histoire des quadrupèdes, par M. de Buffon, vol. IV (Paris, BnF). Part of Drawings for Buffon's Histoire naturelle ⛁

Details

Complex object

Figures pour l'histoire des quadrupèdes, par M. de Buffon, vol. IV (Paris, BnF). Part of Drawings for Buffon's Histoire naturelle ⛁, fol. 111r

Actors

Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742 - 1788) draughtsman : before 1764

Design

Saiga skeleton (Squelette de la Chèvre de Juda)

In-Urus interactions

⇥ Claude Baron (printmaker), Saiga skeleton (L'Imprimerie royale). Part of Set for Buffon's Histoire naturelle (L'Imprimerie royale)

Expert view

Iconography description

Functional context

Buffon's Histoire naturelle (Natural history)

References

Web resources

Comments

State of art

The detail of the horn is mounted on the drawing, but represented on a drape for the in-4 and in-12 engravings.

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2024-07-14 19:15)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2024-12-24 20:29)