C1913

Diomedea melanophrys. (Black-browed Albatros).

Artist:

John Gerrard Keulemans (1842 - 1912)

$A 195

Distribution: Southern Australia from Perh WA southwards to Great Barrier Reef QLD. Two races, one widespread with dark brown eye and the other with pale yellow brown eye. First described by Temminck 1828. Superb lithograph of the BLACK BROWED ALBATROSS … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Diomedea melanophrys. (Black-browed Albatros).

Date:

C1913

Artist:

John Gerrard Keulemans (1842 - 1912)

Engraver:

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Lithograph with original hand colouring.

Paper Size:

335mm

x 240mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1913

Description:

Superb lithograph of the BLACK BROWED ALBATROSS from the last great bird series on Australian ornithology, The Birds of Australia by G. Matthew’s.

This series is rarer than John Gould’s work on Australian birds, with only 225 sets made. It was the last series produced using the laborious process of hand colouring of each individual lithograph.

Common names: Black-browed albatross or Black-browed mollymawk
Modern binomial name: Thalassarche melanophris
First described: Temminck, 1828
Distribution: WA, SA, VIC, TAS, NSW, QLD, Southern waters

Collections:
State Library New South Wales: Call Numbers: MRB/F598.2/M
State Library Victoria: RARESF 598.2994 M42
State Library South Australia: Rare Books Room 598.294 M429 b
State Library of Western Australia: Call Number Q 598.2994 MAT
National Library Australia: Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK9772
State Library Queensland: RBF 598.2994 MAT
National Museum of Australia: Call no: AIA F 598.2994 MAT

References:
Anker, J. Bird Books and Bird Art. Amsterdam 1979 328.
Nissen, C. Die illustrierten Vogelbucher. Stuttgart 1995 IVB 605.

Collections:
State Library New South Wales: Call Numbers: MRB/F598.2/M
State Library Victoria: RARESF 598.2994 M42
State Library of Western Australia: Call Number Q 598.2994 MAT
State Library South Australia: Rare Books Room 598.294 M429
National Library Australia: Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK9772
State Library Queensland: RBF 598.2994
National Museum of Australia: Call no: AIA F 598.2994 MAT

John Gerrard Keulemans (1842 - 1912)

Keulemans 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 him by sending 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.

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