Artist Jacques Christophe Werner (1798–1856)  
Creator:C. de Lasteyrie
Description
Cervus elaphus
Date 1818-1842
Source/Photographer Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier, Histoire naturelle des mammifères, pl. 83
Old Latin name Cervus elaphus
New Latin name Cervus elaphus
Common name Nederlands: Edelhert
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cervus_elaphus_-_1818-1842_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ21500242.tif

The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor, Iran, parts of western Asia, central Asia and the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa.