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Schreber, Johann Christian Daniel · 1775 · 366 pictures

Schreber's 1775 plate volume from Heidelberg University Library, a German natural history atlas of mammals with hand-coloured engravings made for naturalists and scholars. The four plates show hand-coloured mammals in naturalistic poses on mossy ground: a dark monkey with a long bushy tail, a brown ringtailed animal on rock, a white-faced saki-like monkey, and a stocky rodent on grass. A designer could draw on their crisp outlines, earthy green and brown palette, and fur textures rendered with fine hatching.

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