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C1869
De Bonte Kaktoe (Major Mitchell cockatoo)
Artist:
Johannes Gerard Keulemans (1842 - 1912)
Named in honour of Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, who wrote, “Few birds more enliven the monotonous hues of the Australian forest than this beautiful species whose pink-coloured wings and flowing crest might have embellished the air of a more voluptuous … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
De Bonte Kaktoe (Major Mitchell cockatoo)
Date:
C1869
Artist:
Johannes Gerard Keulemans (1842 - 1912)
Condition:
A few faint spots otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
150mm
x 240mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1869
Description:
Named in honour of Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, who wrote,
“Few birds more enliven the monotonous hues of the Australian forest than this beautiful species whose pink-coloured wings and flowing crest might have embellished the air of a more voluptuous region.”
Common names Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo & Leadneater’s Cockatoo
Modern binomial name Lophochroa leadbeateri
First described Vigors 1831
Distribution Australia wide (mainland).
Reference Reader’s Digest Book of Birds 1982 second edition Page: 281, ill.
Sitwell 111, Nissen IVB 491; Zimmer 347; Wood 416
Biography:
Johannes Gerard Keulemans (1842-1912)
Keulemans was a Dutch bird artist and illustrator.
He was born in Rotterdam and as a young man he collected animal specimens for museums such as the Natural History Museum in Leiden, whose director, Hermann Schlegel, encouraged Keulemans and sent him on the 1864 expedition to West Africa. In 1869, he was persuaded by Richard Bowdler Sharpe to illustrate his Monograph of the Alcedinidae, or Family of Kingfishers (1868-1871) and to move to England, where he lived for the rest of his life.
