'Pteropus jubatus' [Flying fox] mb-code 2595587 November 6

November 6

in Stepney

View showing figures around a fountain and seated in a bower

Original: watercolour on board

'Pteropus jubatus' [Flying fox] mb-code 2595587 November 6Zoological study of the Giant golden crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus), native to the Philippines. With a detail of the fruit bat's teeth. Plate 16 from the book Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten wahrend des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, by Friedrich Eschscholtz (Berlin, 1829). Inscribed '4 5 Pteropus jubatus. E. Bommer del. C E Weber sculp. Berol.' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz