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Fire salamander and great crested newt (critically endangered)

Fire salamander, salamandre terrestre, Salamandra salamandra, and great crested newt, triton crete, Triturus cristatus (critically endangered). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles" 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Madame Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780~1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History.

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Title: Fire salamander and great crested newt (critically endangered)

Caption: Fire salamander, salamandre terrestre, Salamandra salamandra, and great crested newt, triton crete, Triturus cristatus (critically endangered). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles" 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Madame Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780~1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History.

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Image size: 3826 × 6409 px | 70.2 MB

Print size: 32.4 × 54.3 cm | 1506.3 × 2523.2 in (300 dpi)

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