Bullock's Museum watercolour drawings of the Platypus Anatinus, 1814 / [by unknown artist, English s...
Bullock's Museum watercolour drawings of the Platypus Anatinus, 1814 / [by unknown artist, English s...
Bullock's Museum watercolour drawings of the Platypus Anatinus, 1814 / [by unknown artist, English school]
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Date
1814
Call Numbers
V/106
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Physical Description
Contents
2 watercolours - 22.7 x 31.4 cm. and 23.1 x 28.2 cm.
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Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1. Platypus Anatinus / From the Nat. Miscel. augmented to the Natural Size
2. Platypus Anatinus / Bullock's Mus. March 1814 / From Nature - probably the difference between this specimen, and the figure in the / Naturalists Miscellany may be sexual. NB. the drawing from that, is of the size of / nature about 13 inches in length, this drawis [i.e....
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Full title
Bullock's Museum watercolour drawings of the Platypus Anatinus, 1814 / [by unknown artist, English school]
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Author / Creator
Notes
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Digital order no:Album ID : 874380...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased Christie's (London) Sale, 23 Sept 2004, Lot 54
Administrative / Biographical history
William Bullock was a nineteenth century naturalist and antiquarian, who established a museum of curiosities in northern England in the late 1790s, which moved to Liverpool in 1801. In 1812 Bullock moved his collections to London and the newly built Egyptian Temple (later Egyptian Hall), Piccadilly, which became an established London landmark, know...
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Call Numbers
V/106
Record Identifier
1bGdejMY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGdejMY
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Reference code
442303
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