EditorialArctomys monax, Print, The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The...
EditorialArctomys monax, Print, The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The...
EditorialA Marmot with a Branch of Plums. Dated: 1605. Dimensions: sheet: 33 x 42.3 cm (13 x 16 5/8 in.) (paper edge slightly covered by the old mount). Medium: brush with brown and black wash, point of the brush with black and brown ink and white gouache, and ...
EditorialA Marmot with a Branch of Plums. Dated: 1605. Dimensions: sheet: 33 x 42.3 cm (13 x 16 5/8 in.) (paper edge slightly covered by the old mount). Medium: brush with brown and black wash, point of the brush with black and brown ink and white gouache, and ...
EditorialPrairie dog variety, perhaps Cynomys species (Prairie marmot, Arctomys? ludoviciani). Illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1826.
EditorialMarmot diana, unknown variety of groundhog or prairie dog, based on a specimen drawn by Howitt at Exeter-Change. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1824.
EditorialGroundhog, Marmota monax (Maryland marmot). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1824.
EditorialRestoration of a European landscape in the Diluvial era. Ice Age man, rhinoceros, cave lion, cave bear, giant deer, mammoth, musk ox, and marmot. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolle's "Geology and Paleontology" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert...