Velin · Paris · MDCCCXXXIV—MDCCCLIV
Erpétologie Générale
Atlas — Planche LXXIV · des Lézards
Planche LXXIV — Fig. 1 à 4

Tinted in olive
& ochre, by hand

One hundred and twenty lithograph plates of lizards and snakes — fine outline beneath muted litho washes that pool in the scale rows, laid on aged greyed-buff plate paper, never cream.

Tint-wash modeling Head-shield keys Légendes françaises

Figures & scale-row diagrams after the systematic atlas — engraved, lettered, and washed.

1 2 3 4 Squamata — détail des écailles Fig. 1. bouclier céphalique · Fig. 2. rangée dorsale Fig. 3. bande dorsale teintée · Fig. 4. plaques ventrales
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