Maki nain. [Lemur].

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• ARTIST: Frederic Cuvier

• PUBLISHER: De L'Imprimerie de Rignoux, Rue des Franc-Bourgeois-Saint-Michel, No. 8.

• MEDIUM: Lithograph handcolored,

  DATE: 1822

• EDITION SIZE: Paper size 14 x 20 3/4" (352 x 522 mm).

• DESCRIPTION: A dwarf lemur from "Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes, avec des figures originales enluminees, dessinees d'apres des animaux vivants". Published in Paris, A l'Imprimeire Lithographique de C. De Lasteyrie, Lithographe du Roi et de S.A.R. Mgneur. le duc d'Angouleme, rue du Bac, no. 58.<br><br> The animal in this lithograph is a species of lemur. The term "maki" is the French translation of the Malagasy word "maky" meaning "lemur." The one pictured here might be the mouse lemur or the cheirogaleidae.

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• CONDITION: Good condition and color.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Natural History - Animals & Insects , Small Mammals and Rodents