Joseph d’Alton – Design You Trust

Edouard Joseph d’Alton’s Detailed Illustrations of Animal Skeletons, 1821–1838

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In a series of comparative studies published from 1821 to 1838, and collected under the title Die vergleichende Osteologie [The Comparative Osteology], the Baltic German biologist Heinz Christian Pander (1794–1865) and the Italian-born German naturalist and artist Edouard Joseph d’Alton (1772–1840) presented an extraordinary illustrated atlas of animal bones. Continue reading »