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C1833
Tabuan Parrakeet
Artist:
Captain Thomas Brown (1785 - 1862)
Superb finely hand coloured engraving of the King Parrot. Modern binomial name: Alisterus scapularis First described: Lichtenstein 1816. Distribution: VIC NSW & QLD Reference: Reader’s Digest Book of Birds 2nd ed 1986 Page: 293, ill. 292
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Full Title:
Tabuan Parrakeet
Date:
C1833
Artist:
Captain Thomas Brown (1785 - 1862)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
100mm
x 170mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1833
Description:
Superb finely hand coloured engraving of the King Parrot.
Modern binomial name: Alisterus scapularis
First described: Lichtenstein 1816.
Distribution: VIC NSW & QLD
Reference: Reader’s Digest Book of Birds 2nd ed 1986 Page: 293, ill. 292
Artist:
Captain Thomas Brown (1785-1862)
Brown was a British naturalist born in Perth, Scotland and educated at the Edinburgh High School. After joining the Forfar and Kineardine Militia at the age of twenty, he was raised to rank of Captain in 1811. While quartered in Manchester, he became interested in nature. He purchased the Fifeshire flax mill after his regiment was disbanded. The mill burned down before he had the opportunity to insure it. Also a malacologist (studying mollusks), he began to write books about nature to earn a living. For twenty-two years beginning in 1840, he was curator of the Manchester Museum. Additionally, he became a fellow of the Linnean Society, a member of the Wernerian, Kirwanian, and Phrenological Societies.
