'Pteropus jubatus' [Flying fox] mb-code 2595587 complete with sprig of holly

complete with sprig of holly

Original: watercolour on board

The Princess is being escorted by the Crown Prince of Prussia and the Duke of Saxe Coburg

View showing figures around a fountain and seated in a bower

including a child playing with a hoop and horse-drawn vehicles

'Pteropus jubatus' [Flying fox] mb-code 2595587 complete with sprig of hollyZoological study of the Giant golden crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus), native to the Philippines. With a detail of the fruit bat's teeth. Plate 16 from the book Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten wahrend des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, by Friedrich Eschscholtz (Berlin, 1829). Inscribed '4 5 Pteropus jubatus. E. Bommer del. C E Weber sculp. Berol.' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz