Yellow-billed kite, Milvus aegyptius, and swallow-tailed
Yellow-billed kite, Milvus aegyptius, and swallow-tailed kite, Elanoides forficatus.. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Terreni, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780
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10936109
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45506291
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3759px x 6404px
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© Florilegius / Mary Evans
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1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century
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