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THE THYLACINE IN ART:
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Image thirty-nine - unknown artist
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A plate from the book "Mammalogie: ou Descriptions des Especes de Mammiferes" (Mammalogy: or Descriptions of Mammals), 1820, by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest.  This wood engraving by an unknown artist depicts "Dasyure Cynocephale" along with five other marsupials.

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784-1838), a French zoologist and author, was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest.  Desmarest was a disciple of Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, and in 1815, he succeeded Pierre André Latreille to the professorship of zoology at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort.
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Histoire Naturelle. Quadrupedes. - unknown artist
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1. Virginia opossum (Didephis virginiana) 2. Tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), 3. Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), 4. Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), 5. Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) with undeveloped tail brush (thought to be a separate species at the time), 6. Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
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