'Pteropus jubatus' [Flying fox] mb-code 2595587 Original: watercolour on board

Original: watercolour on board

Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Bell

19th October 1979

November 6

with figures and horse drawn vehicles on the street

'Pteropus jubatus' [Flying fox] mb-code 2595587 Original: watercolour on boardZoological study of the Giant golden crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus), native to the Philippines. With a detail of the fruit bat's teeth. Plate 16 from the book Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten wahrend des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, by Friedrich Eschscholtz (Berlin, 1829). Inscribed '4 5 Pteropus jubatus. E. Bommer del. C E Weber sculp. Berol.' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz