One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.
Date
1758
Technique
Engraved
Sheet size
22 × 29 cm (8.7 × 11.4 in)
Condition
Fair
Reference
BG-12936-77
Condition
Age-related toning. Shows some wear and creasing, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
About this sheet
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).
