{"product_id":"0707-skeleton-of-grizzly-bear","title":"Skeleton of Grizzly Bear","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiclee reprint of an original lithograph from the Zoology Volume of Albert du Petit-Thouars’ \u003cem\u003eVoyage autour du Monde sur la Fregate La Venus\u003c\/em\u003e, published in Paris in 1846. This highly influential multi-volume masterwork documented extensive biological collections gathered across the Pacific Ocean, the Galapagos Islands, California, and the Indian Ocean. The mammal (mammalogy) section of the text was prepared in part by the celebrated French zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, featuring meticulous descriptions and striking hand-colored plates of newly cataloged terrestrial and marine mammals encountered during the voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe phrase \"De l'ours terrible\" used on this plate serves as the historical French title for the grizzly bear (\u003cem\u003eUrsus arctos horribilis\u003c\/em\u003e). This descriptive title, which translates to \"Of the terrible bear,\" accompanies the archaic scientific classification\u003cem\u003e Ursus ferox\u003c\/em\u003e (ferocious bear), a binomial assigned to the North American grizzly by early naturalists who were awed by the predator's massive size and fierce reputation. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\"\u003eWhile anchored along the coast of Alta California, the French expedition team successfully collected physical specimens of the grizzly, allowing master natural history illustrators back in Europe to produce an authoritative, highly detailed osteological baseline that helped 19th-century zoologists study the structural differences between American grizzly bears and European brown bears.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[]--\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archival Finds Prints","offers":[{"title":"Photo - 13cm x 18cm","offer_id":54666773954897,"sku":"0707-Photo","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A5 - 14.8cm x 21 cm","offer_id":54666773922129,"sku":"0707-A5","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A4 - 21cm x 29,7cm","offer_id":54666773856593,"sku":"0707-A4","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 - 29,7cm x 42cm","offer_id":54666773889361,"sku":"0707-A3","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1046\/0977\/5953\/files\/0707_Landscape1.webp?v=1790099648","url":"https:\/\/archivalfinds.com\/products\/0707-skeleton-of-grizzly-bear","provider":"Archival Finds Prints","version":"1.0","type":"link"}