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Bertuch 1790 Bilderbuch

Fig 07 Bertuch Bilderbuch

Quadrupeds Plate II, published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch in his Bilderbuch für Kinder, first edition of Weimar available in 1790 or 1792. The one-horned rhinoceros is modelled after the example of Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle of 1764 (see fig. 6). The male and female zebras in the middle are actually a Cape mountain zebra after Buffon, and a Quagga after a plate by George Edwards of 1758.

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