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Expedition member

Félicien Henri de Saulcy

1832–1912 · France

Entomologist. Child of Félicien de Saulcy; worked with Léon Belly and Edouard Delessert.

Life and work

  1. September 1849
    Expedition leaves Marseille; it includes the leader's son Félicien Henri, Edouard Delessert, the botanist abbé J. H. Michon and the painters Léon Belly and Léon Loysel

    MarseilleTatton-Brown 2001, p. 143

  2. 1849–1850
    The expedition called at Cyprus on its way east and collected terracotta figurines and a limestone offering-bearer statue holding a small bull, published by A. de Longpérier in 1855 as an example of Phoenician art (the statue is in the Louvre)

    CyprusTatton-Brown 2001, p. 143

Connections

3 people
Félicien de SaulcyLéon BellyEdouard DelessertFélicien Henri de Saulcy
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Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.