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C1893
The Giant Petrel.
Artist:
C.19th engraving of the southern giant petrel. Common names: Southern giant petrel, Antarctic giant petrel, Giant fulmar Modern binomial name: Macronectes giganteus First scientific description: Gmelin 1789 Distribution: Coastal Australia (not NT)
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Full Title:
The Giant Petrel.
Date:
C1893
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
130mm
x 115mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1893
Description:
C.19th engraving of the southern giant petrel.
Common names: Southern giant petrel, Antarctic giant petrel, Giant fulmar
Modern binomial name: Macronectes giganteus
First scientific description: Gmelin 1789
Distribution: Coastal Australia (not NT)
Friedrich Specht (1839 - 1909)
Specht was a 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 of Brehms 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's Royal Natural History (1893–96).
