Il Mococo. Ring-tailed Madagascar Lemur. Nicolas Henri Jacob c1823.

by Jacob, Nicolas Henri

Ring-tailed Lemur antique print. Nicolas Henri Jacob engraving.

Fine stipple-engraved folio-size plate by Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782-1871) for Pietro Hugues's Storia Naturale delle Scimie e dei Maki (Natural History of Monkeys and Maki (Lemurs)).

First published in 1812-1814 with Latin text below the image, this wonderful engraving is from the second edition of this important 19th century monograph on Apes, Monkeys and Lemurs, published in Milan c1823 by P. Hugues, with contemporary hand-colour.mage. For this second edition, c1823, the text below the engraving is in Italian.

Page size 48 x 32.5 cm (18.7/9 x 12.3/4 inches).