'The Mongooz' [Lemur] Size:XS: 25 x 20cm 22nd April 1978

22nd April 1978

Chart of colours based upon Benson's 'cube of colours': sections at right angles with the secondary cross axes

Natural size and at various magnifications

with balconies

Figure 2 male lizard maculata

'The Mongooz' [Lemur] Size:XS: 25 x 20cm 22nd April 1978Zoological study of a Lemur from Madagascar. The animal is shown on a patch of greenery, its tail looped around a basket of apples and pears, as if in the act of selecting one. Plate 216 from chapter 6 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is inscribed: 'G. Edwards Delin. et sculp: Published January the first. 1754. The