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C1893
The Black Tree-Kangaroo
Artist:
Friedrich Spechter (1839 - 1909)
Small c.19th engraving of the Ursine tree-kangaroo Binomial name: Dendrolagus ursinus First described: Temminck, 1836 Distribution: New Guinea (Vogelkop Peninsula)
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Full Title:
The Black Tree-Kangaroo
Date:
C1893
Artist:
Friedrich Spechter (1839 - 1909)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
130mm
x 115mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1893
Description:
Small c.19th engraving of the Ursine tree-kangaroo
Binomial name: Dendrolagus ursinus
First described: Temminck, 1836
Distribution: New Guinea (Vogelkop Peninsula)
Artist:
Friedrich Specht (1839-1909)
German painter and natural history illustrator. He provided illustrations of animals and landscapes for a large number of zoology and veterinary science publications, notably for the first edition ofBrehms Tierleben(1864–69) ,Brockhaus and Efron Encloclopedic Dictionary(1890—1907),Karl Christoph Vogt’s Die Säugetiere in Wort und Bild(1883–89) and Richard Lydekker’sRoyal Natural History(1893–96).
