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C1919
Megapodargus Papuensis. (Large Podargus).
Artist:
Distribution : QLD. Cape York Peninsula on the edges of rainforest and paperbark forests along streams and mangroves. First described by Quoy & Gaimard Voy de l’Asttrol. Zool. 1830. English painter, etcher, illustrator of birds and wild life. Studied at … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Megapodargus Papuensis. (Large Podargus).
Date:
C1919
Artist:
Engraver:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph with original hand colouring.
Paper Size:
240mm
x 335mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1919
Description:
Distribution : QLD. Cape York Peninsula on the edges of rainforest and paperbark forests along streams and mangroves. First described by Quoy & Gaimard Voy de l’Asttrol. Zool. 1830. English painter, etcher, illustrator of birds and wild life. Studied at Rochester School of Art. He held many one man shows in London, especially at the Ackerman Galleries. This image is from the last great bird series, The Birds of Australia done by G.Matthew’. It was the last to use the hand colouring rather than colour printed lithography. Original lithograph. Rare.
Superb lithograph of the Papuan Frogmouth the largest of the Australian frogmouths, it’s found on Cape. 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.
Modern binomial name: Podargus papuensis
First described: Quoy & Gaimard, 1830
Distribution: Aru Islands, New Guinea, QLD (Cape York Peninsula)
First described: Quoy & Gaimard, 1830
Distribution: Aru Islands, New Guinea, QLD (Cape York Peninsula)
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
Roland J. Green (1896 - 1972)
English bird artist, who produced numerous bird studies in watercolours and oils. Green remained a bachelor throughout his life, making his home in a disused drainage mill at Hickling in Norfolk. He set many of his bird paintings in the Broads, capturing some of the wild beauty of this region in his distinctive style. Roland Green was born in Kent, the son of a taxidermist, who trained him in the skinning, stuffing and setting up birds, thereby instilling an extensive knowledge of anatomy and plumage. He showed an early aptitude for drawing and painting birds. Educated in Rochester and at the Regent Street Polytechnic, he was a skilled bird and mammal painter, holding annual exhibitions of his paintings and etchings. The subjects of his etchings were snipe, Canada geese, mallard and kingfishers. He also gave lectures on bird watching and the drawing of birds, with an emphasis on birds in flight. He spent a great deal of time in the reedbeds, creating the mistaken impression of being unsociable, but his talks to pupils at various schools dispelled that notion.
