Lydekker Huia

Print description

Description:

 

Crabs, Crustaces, Maia Austral, Etise Utile, Plate 2.
Hand coloured engraving, elephant folio.

From:

 

Dumont d'Urville, Atlas d'Histoire Naturelle, Voyage au Pole Sud et dans Oceanie sur Les Corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zelee, published from 1841-54.

Artist:

 

Addional Notes:

 

The plates to all natural history volumes were usually published in one atlas because of the large size of the plates, hence there is no text with this print. The crabs were collected by J.B. Hombron and H. Jaquinot from the Auckland Islands.

Refererence, Andrews, J.R.H., The Southern Ark, 1986.

 

Display &
Framing Notes:

 

Do not hang in direct sunlight.
This print should be framed with acid free archival matting and archival glass.

 

 

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