Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin
This is a plate series from the Abhandlungen of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, published in Berlin in 1822 by the Realschul-Buchhandlung for a scholarly audience of naturalists. The hand-coloured plates show jerboas and small desert rodents in naturalistic settings, with long tails, large hind legs and soft earthy washes that a designer could draw on for muted, scientific-looking natural history layouts.
