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Year
c. 1760-1780
Era
Enlightenment
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Medium
Hand-colored copperplate engraving
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Engraving of quadrupeds from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle. Hand-colored copperplate engraving by Robert Bénard, master engraver of the French Enlightenment who contributed over 1,800 plates to Diderot's Encyclopédie. Public Domain.
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