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New Holland: Kangaroo Island. Emu of New Holland

New Holland: Kangaroo Island. Emu of New Holland
(Nouvelle Hollande: Île Decrès. Casoar de la Nouvelle Hollande)
 (1807-1816)
plate 36 from A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere... by François Peron and Louis Freycinet. L'Imprimerie Impèriale, Paris 1807-16

Medium
colour engraving with hand-colouring
Measurements
24.5 × 31.9 cm (plate) 26.4 × 35.5 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Inscription
inscribed in plate above image u.r.: XXXVI.
inscribed in plate below image l.l.: C. A. Lesueur del.
inscribed in plate below image l.c.: J. Milbert direx.
inscribed in plate below image l.r.: F.res (res in superscript above . ) Lambert sculp.
inscribed in plate below image l.l.: Dixieme de grandeur N.elle (elle in superscript above . )
inscribed in plate below image l.c.: NOUVELLE-HOLLANDE: ILE DECRÈS. / CASOAR de la N.elle (elle in superscript above . ) Hollande. (Casuarius novae Hollandiae Lath.) / 1. Casoar mâle. 2. Casoar Fémelle. 3. Jeune Casoar de 5 Semaines environ. Les deux individus marqués de bandes longitudinales sout âgés de 20 á 25 jours. / De l'lmprimerie de Langlois.
Accession Number
2005.351
Departments
Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the NGV Foundation by John Baird, Member, 2005
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display