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Duck-billed platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Duck-billed platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Brown and red varieties. Platypus, Ornythorhynchus fuscus and Ornythorhynchus ruber. Copied from Charles Alexander Lesueur's illustration in Francois Peron's Voyage, 1807. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830

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14009154

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45802867

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6791px x 4875px (6.7MB)

Credit

©Florilegius/Mary Evans

Source

Charles Alexander Lesueur

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1813 Bilderbuch Fur Kinder Carl Bertuch Encyclopedia Engraved Plates Friedrich Johann Bertuch Natural History Oviparous Picture Book For Children Platypus Varieties

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