"Der grosse Beutelhund. (The
Great Pouched Dog) Thylacinus cynocephalus.", by Hans Jakob Kull, from
Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's famous work "Monographien der Säugethiere"
(Monographs of Mammals). Publisher - Zurich : Meyer und Zeller, 1843.
Note the similarities between this illustration and those produced earlier
by Coutant
and Brodtmann,
on which it is obviously based.
The numerous stains on the image are the
result of ageing of the paper. |