About Herpetology Scale Plate
Erpétologie générale (Roret, Paris, 1834–1854) by Duméril, Bibron and Duméril is an atlas of 120 hand-colored lithograph plates of lizards and snakes, rendered in muted olive-green and ochre tints. Scale-row diagrams and head-shield keys sit beside full-body figures, each numbered with French legends.
This system distills that scholarly atlas into a digital language: the aged greyed-buff plate paper as ground, lizard-olive as primary, warm ochre for ornament, and period serif type for French legends — tint-wash modeling over fine outline, never flat vector.
- Origin
- Western Europe — Paris, France
- Era
- pre-1900 (atlas issued 1834–1854; current revival reading ~scholarly facsimile)
- Key figures
- André Marie Constant Duméril · Gabriel Bibron · Auguste Duméril · Roret (publisher)
- Movements
- 19th-century systematic herpetology · Hand-colored lithographic natural-history atlases
Herpetology Scale Plate design spec
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