Chitwan National Park, Nepal
14th February 1876
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Untitled (A Polar Bear - Ursus maritimus)
18th Century
George Edwards
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Untitled (A Polar Bear - Ursus maritimus)
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18th Century
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A Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), in an album originally containing 167 drawings of quadrupeds; in profile to left, standing on an ice floe, drawn within a painted border. Watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white (partly oxidised).
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