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Dissection of a Lizard, Plate 15
Jean Baptiste André Gautier d'Agoty1756
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Dissection of a Lizard, Plate 15
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty
- Date Created: 1756
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in plate, lower right: “Mr. Gautier et Toussaint”; inscribed in plate, upper right: “Octob. 1756, Pa 287”
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1992
- Materials & Techniques: Mezzotint printed in colors on laid paper
- Keywords: anatomy, animals, color intaglio, lizards, medicine, reptiles
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: From the journal “Observations pèriodiques sur la physique et des arts,” published with color plates in 1756 and 1757 by Toussaint
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 212 mm x 146 mm (8.35 in. x 5.75 in.).
- Bibliography: Inventaire Bibliothèque Nationale 16; see Franklin, Colin & Charlotte (missing from Print Ref. Library)
- Associated People: Created by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty (French, 1740-1786)
- Accession Number: 1992.11.1
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