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C1820
Quadrupeds. 1. Virginiana Virginian. 2. D. Petaurus Petaurine O.-3. D. Murine O.- 4. D. Gigantea K. a Mas. b. Fem.
Early c.19th engraving of possums and kangaroos. The kangaroos depicted are a male and female Eastern grey kangaroo . Common name;Â Eastern Grey Kangaroo Binomial name;Â Macropus giganteus First described;Â Shaw 1790 Distribution;Â Eastern Australia S.A., Vic, TAS, NSW and QLD. The possum at … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Quadrupeds. 1. Virginiana Virginian. 2. D. Petaurus Petaurine O.-3. D. Murine O.- 4. D. Gigantea K. a Mas. b. Fem.
Date:
C1820
Engraver:
Sydenham Edwards
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
180mm
x 230mm
Paper Size:
208mm
x 265mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1820
Description:
Early c.19th engraving of possums and kangaroos.
The kangaroos depicted are a male and female Eastern grey kangaroo .
Common name;Â Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Binomial name;Â Macropus giganteus
First described;Â Shaw 1790
Distribution;Â Eastern Australia S.A., Vic, TAS, NSW and QLD.
The possum at top right (2.) is a Yellow-bellied Glider
Common names: Yellow-bellied Glider or Fluffy Glider.
Modern binomial name: Petaurus australis
First described Shaw 1791
Distribution VIC, NSW & QLD
Abraham Rees (1743 - 1825)
Abraham Rees was a Welsh nonconformist minister, and compiler of Rees's Cyclopædia.
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Sydneham Edwards (1768 - 1819)
Initially worked for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, until a dispute with the publishers when he started his own rival magazine The Botanical Register. He was born in Monmouthshire, a from an early age demonstrated a precocious talent for drawing and when only 11 years old had copied plates from Flora Londinensis. A friend of William Curtis, the publisher visited the Edwards and recommended the boy to Curtis. Curtis proceeded to have Edwards trained in both botany and botanical illustration. Edwards was a prolific talent and between 1787 and 1815 he produced over 1,700 watercolours for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. He established The Botanical Register in 1815 after a disagreement with John Sims, Curtis’s editor.
