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Georg August Goldfuss (1782 - 1848)
Very rare elephant folio size lithograph, the largest made of the Eastern Grey Kangaroo. Modern common name Eastern Grey Kangaroo Modern binomial name Macropus giganteus First described Shaw 1790 Distribution Eastern Australia S.A., Vic, TAS, NSW and QLD. Reference The … Read Full Description
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Very rare elephant folio size lithograph, the largest made of the Eastern Grey Kangaroo.
Modern common name Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Modern binomial name Macropus giganteus
First described Shaw 1790
Distribution Eastern Australia S.A., Vic, TAS, NSW and QLD.
Reference The Mammals of Australia, Strahan, 2nd edition. Page: 335-338, ill.335-337
From Naturalist Atlas by Georg August Goldfuss. The work was released in parts comprising 20 per year, from 1824-1842 in Dusseldorf. The work was never released as an officially bound copy. Exceptionally Rare
The first illustration of a ‘Kangaroo’ drawn from an Australian species, is acknowledged as that drawn by George Stubb’s from a specimen collected at Endeavour River in 1770 by James Cook’s crew while the Endeavour was being careened.
The subsequent engraving was published in 1773, in the official accounts of the voyage of the Endeavour. That iconic image captured the public’s imagination for over sixty years and was the first depiction of any Australian animal in western art.
The first sighting of a kangaroo in fact was an earlier one, by Francis Pelsaert of ‘the teeming cats’ on 15th November, 1629 on the Abrolhos Islands where the Batavia had been wrecked. The first illustration of a Macropod was made prior to the Stubb’s illustration, titled ‘Kangaron’ and made on 15th November 1629 by Matthys Pool and described by Cornelis de Bruyn in ” Reizen over Moskovie door Persie en Indie”, 1714 but the animal depicted was not an Australian species but Thylogale brunii (Dusky Pademelon), a Filander native to New Guinea.
Artist:
Georg August Goldfuss (1782-1848)
Goldfuss was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth and educated at Erlangen where he graduated in 1804 and became professor of zoology in 1818. He was subsequently appointed professor of zoology and mineralogy at the University of Bonn. Aided by Count Georg zu Münster, he issued the important Petrefacta Germaniae (1826–44), a work which was intended to illustrate the invertebrate fossils of Germany, but it was left incomplete after the sponges, corals, crinoids, echinoderms and part of the mollusca had been figured. His greatest work was Naturhistorischer Atlas.
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