Description
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inscription
Inscribed in pen and red ink, upper right: "656"; in pen and brown ink, upper centre: "the bignes of the largest quils"; in pen and brown ink, lower left: "this creature calld the long tailed porcupine is of the | bignes of a common cat and shaped like the Aegiptian Ichnumen it is coverd with quills the longest on the back about 3 inches | long which gradually decrees in length and thicknes toward the belly so as to seeme only lik common stif short hair the brisels | on the tail are short - it has a sort of finn on the inside of the hinder feet which makes me think it an amphibious | creature the fore teeth are like the bevers drawn from the case preserved in Duke richmonds Cabinet | the tail a little to short, it is described by Piso"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "pr Geo Edwards | May 1738"; inscribed on back in pen and brown ink, centre: "This out line is more correct | than that pr contra"; in graphite, centre left: "The quills Large on the back Small toward | the belly the tail a little Longer than in the | Drawing".
Descriptive Medium
Pen, gray ink, brown ink, brown wash, watercolour, and graphite
Image Licence
Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art
Image Credit
image credit Yale Center for British Art
Location
Indonesia
Country
Indonesia
Tags
Category
Flora & Fauna