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C1893
White Spoonbill
Artist:
Scarce c.19th hand coloured engraving of the Royal Spoonbill. Binomial name: Platalea regia First described: Gould, 1838 Distribution: Australia wide References: Nissen, C. Die zoologische Buchillustration. 1969 Hamburg: ZBI 2612.Collections:State Library New South Wales: 991018170519702626State Library Victoria: 992670043607636State Library Queensland: … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
White Spoonbill
Date:
C1893
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
130mm
x 105mm
Paper Size:
150mm
x 120mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1893
Description:
Scarce c.19th hand coloured engraving of the Royal Spoonbill.
Binomial name: Platalea regia
First described: Gould, 1838
Distribution: Australia wide
References:
Nissen, C. Die zoologische Buchillustration. 1969 Hamburg: ZBI 2612.
Collections:
State Library New South Wales: 991018170519702626
State Library Victoria: 992670043607636
State Library Queensland: 992416864702061
State Library South Australia: 500.9 R888 b
State Library of Western Australia: 590.2 ROY
Wellcome Collection: WT/D/1/20/1/82/96
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).
