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C1884
Rose-Hill or Rosella Parrakeet
Artist:
Alexander Francis Lydon (1836 - 1917)
The name Rosella was a corruption of ‘Rosehiller‘, the name the early colonists gave the species, that had been found at Rose Hill. Shaw & Nodder common name The Nonpareil Parrot. Modern common name Eastern Rosella, White-cheeked Rosella Shaw & … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Rose-Hill or Rosella Parrakeet
Date:
C1884
Artist:
Alexander Francis Lydon (1836 - 1917)
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Colour printed engraving.
Image Size:
115mm
x 190mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1884
Description:
The name Rosella was a corruption of ‘Rosehiller‘, the name the early colonists gave the species, that had been found at Rose Hill.
Shaw & Nodder common name The Nonpareil Parrot.
Modern common name Eastern Rosella, White-cheeked Rosella
Shaw & Nodder binomial name or protonym Psittacus eximius
Modern binomial name Platycercus eximius
First described Shaw 1792
Distribution Australia wide (mainland)
Reference Reader’s Digest Book of Birds 1982
Page: p.304-5, ill. 304 & 305
From : Greene, Parrots in
Captivity..
Biography:
Alexander Francis Lydon (1836–1917)
English watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He collaborated and worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer, to whom he had been apprenticed from the age of fourteen.
