Photoprints of paintings of birds collected on Cook's Second Voyage, from originals in the Royal Sco...
Photoprints of paintings of birds collected on Cook's Second Voyage, from originals in the Royal Scottish Museum and the British Museum Print Room / Gertrude Metz
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PXB 1618
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63 photographic prints - various sizes
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Contents
CONTENTS
1. Thirty eight coloured Drawings of Birds of the Southern Hemisphere, executed from the Life, in the course of Captain Cook's second voyage.
(Original volume is in the possession of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh)
2. Natural History Drawings / Various Artists / Banks Collection (Vol. 199*, B4, ff. 7-23, 61-4), (ff....
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Photoprints of paintings of birds collected on Cook's Second Voyage, from originals in the Royal Scottish Museum and the British Museum Print Room / Gertrude Metz
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The drawings are described in Lysaght, Averil, 'Some eighteenth century bird paintings in the Library of Sir Joseph Banks', in 'Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History', Historical Series, Vol. 1, No. 6, 1959, pp. 310-322, 348.
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Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
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Part 1 originally held by The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh¶Part 2 originally held by The British Museum Print Room
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PXB 1618
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9yM6OmE9
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845623
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