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C1893
Australian Owlet Frog-Mouth
Artist:
Friedrich Specht (1839 - 1909)
C19th engraving of the Owlet-nightjar. Common names : Owlet-nightjar & Crested Owlet-nightjar. Modern binomial name:Â Aegotheles cristatus First described:Â Shaw 1790 Distribution:Â Australia wide Reference: Readers Digest Book of Birds 2nd ed 1986 Page: 338, ill. 338
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Full Title:
Australian Owlet Frog-Mouth
Date:
C1893
Artist:
Friedrich Specht (1839 - 1909)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
127mm
x 105mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1893
Description:
C19th engraving of the Owlet-nightjar.
Common names : Owlet-nightjar & Crested Owlet-nightjar.
Modern binomial name:Â Aegotheles cristatus
First described:Â Shaw 1790
Distribution:Â Australia wide
Reference: Readers Digest Book of Birds 2nd ed 1986 Page: 338, ill. 338
Artist:
Friedrich Specht (1839-1909) German painter and natural history illustrator. He provided illustrations of animals and landscapes for a large number of zoology and veterinary science publications, notably for the first edition of Brehms Tierleben (1864–69) , Brockhaus and Efron Encloclopedic Dictionary (1890—1907), Karl Christoph Vogt’s Die Säugetiere in Wort und Bild (1883–89) and Richard Lydekker’s Royal Natural History (1893–96).
