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C1893
White Spoonbill
Artist:
Friedrich Specht (1839 - 1909)
C19th engraving of the Royal Spoonbill. Binomial name: Platalea regia First described: Gould, 1838 Distribution: Australia wide
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Full Title:
White Spoonbill
Date:
C1893
Artist:
Friedrich Specht (1839 - 1909)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
130mm
x 105mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1893
Description:
C19th engraving of the Royal Spoonbill.
Binomial name: Platalea regia
First described: Gould, 1838
Distribution: Australia wide
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).
