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C1871
The Kangaroo (Macropus Major)
Artist:
Helena Forde (1832 - 1910)
Modern common name Eastern Grey Kangaroo Shaw & Nodder binomial name or protonym Macropus giganteus Modern binomial name Macropus giganteus First described Shaw 1790 Distribution Eastern Australia S.A., Vic, TAS, NSW and QLD. Reference The Mammals of Australia, Strahan, 2nd edition. Page: 335-338, ill.335-337 … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Kangaroo (Macropus Major)
Date:
C1871
Artist:
Helena Forde (1832 - 1910)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
420mm
x 330mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1871
Description:
Modern common name Eastern Grey Kangaroo Shaw & Nodder binomial name or protonym Macropus giganteus
Modern binomial name Macropus giganteus
First described Shaw 1790
Distribution Eastern Australia S.A., Vic, TAS, NSW and QLD.
Reference The Mammals of Australia, Strahan, 2nd edition. Page: 335-338, ill.335-337
The first illustration of a the Kangaroo drawn from an Australian species, is acknowledged as that drawn by George Stubb’s from a specimen collected at Endeavour River in 1770 by James Cook’s crew while the Endeavour was being careened. The subsequent engraving was published in 1773, in the official accounts of the voyage of the Endeavour. That iconic image captured the public’s imagination for over sixty years and was the first depiction of any Australian animal in western art. The first sighting of a kangaroo in fact was an earlier one, by Francis Pelsaert of ‘the teeming rats’ on 15th November, 1629 on the Abrolhos Islands where the Batavia had been wrecked. The first illustration of a Macropod was made prior to the Stubb’s illustration, titled ‘Kangaron’ and made on 15th November 1629 by Matthys Pool and described by Cornelis de Bruyn in ‘Reizen over Moskovie door Persie en Indie’, 1714 but the animal depicted was not an Australian species but Thylogale brunii (Dusky Pademelon), a Filander native to New Guinea.
From Kreft’s, Mammals of Australia
Biography:
Helena Forde (1832-1910) (nee Scott) and her sister Harriet Scott (1830-1907)
Were born in the Rocks area of Sydney to Harriet Calcott, daughter of an ex-convict, and Alexander Walter Scott, a wealthy man who would become known in the colony as an entomologist, grazier and entrepreneur. Helena and Harriet (known as the Scott sisters) were two of 19th century Australia’s most prominent natural history illustrators and possibly the first professional female illustrators in the country.
In 1846, Harriet and Helena, then aged 16 and 14, moved from Sydney to the isolated Ash Island in the Hunter River estuary with their mother, Harriet Calcott, and father, entomologist and entrepreneur Alexander Walker Scott.
There, surrounded by unspoilt native vegetation and under the inspiring tutelage of their artistic father, their shared fascination with the natural world grew. For almost 20 years, the sisters lived and worked on the island, faithfully recording its flora and fauna, especially the butterflies and moths.
The sisters continued to draw and paint commercially for the rest of their lives. Harriet drew botanical illustrations for the 1879, 1884 and 1886 editions of the Railway Guide to New South Wales, and they both executed designs for Australia’s first Christmas cards in 1879. Harriet died at Granville NSW in 1907 and Helena in 1910.
Reference; Australian Museum.
