1. Das Halsband Faulthier. Le Paresseux a nuque noire. 2. Der Ameisenfresser. Le Fourmilier Tamanoir. 3. Das Gürtelthier. ..

Title

1. Das Halsband Faulthier. Le Paresseux a nuque noire. 2. Der Ameisenfresser. Le Fourmilier Tamanoir. 3. Das Gürtelthier. ..

Description

Plate VI. shows five illustrations of 1. the necklace sloth. Le Paresseux a nuque noire, 2. the ant-eater. Le Fourmilier Tamanoir, 3. the armadillo. Le Tatou Peba, 4. the African pangolin. Le Pangolin d'Afrique, 5. the brown platypus. L'Ornithorinque roux. Also an illustration of the skull and forefoot of an ant-eater.

ca. 1840

Artist

Brodtmann (1787-1862)

Karl Joseph-Ioseph Brodtmann was an accomplished Swiss artist and lithographer, as well as a printmaker, publisher and bookseller who worked in Zurich and Schaffhausen. Brodtmann's natural history lithographs include Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's works on reptiles and birds, published in the early 1830s. Brodtmann also produced natural history lithographs, as Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche.