"STÉNORHYNQUE AUX PETITS ONGLES" (F. Cuv.)
JEAN-CHARLES WERNER (painted by)
Superb and detailed stipple engraving from Dumont d’Urville's "Voyage au pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie":
A Seal with three detailed sketches of the skull.
Realistic image of this specimen.
ENGRAVING TECHNIQUE: Stipple engraving
Stipple engraving on copperplate.
Printed on strong wove paper.
From "Voyage au pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie sur les corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zelee,
executé par ordre du roi pendant les annees 1837-1838-1839-1840".
Atlas zoologique, Mammifères, plate 9
"GIDE Editeur Paris" blind stamp on lower margin in the middle.
SIZE: 410mm(L) x 275mm(H) [copperplate]
550mm(L) x 355mm(H) [sheet/paper]
In excellent condition, lower right corner worn with few mm of paper loss.
Attractive original hand colouring.
Was a natural history artist and comparative anatomist for the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where he contributed some 350 paintings of animals on vellum for the famous Collection des vélins between the years 1826 and 1856. The Collection, initiated in 1631, contained work by the finest natural history artists in France, including Nicolas Robert and Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Werner provided illustrations for the publication of Dumont d’Urville’s expeditions to Australia and the South Pacific, and also worked with Cuvier, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Henri Ducrotay de Blainville. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire named a species of monkey after him.