[Kangaroo Head] / by Gerard Krefft, 1861
[Kangaroo Head] / by Gerard Krefft, 1861
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Date
1861
Call Numbers
V*/Zoo/4
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Physical Description
Contents
1 watercolour - 53 x 38 cm. - on card
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Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Full title
[Kangaroo Head] / by Gerard Krefft, 1861
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
A non-contemporaneous label accompanies this drawing and has been affixed to Library mount; "Water color [colour] drawing of a 'Kangaroo head' (signed picture) by the late Gerard Krefft FLS CMZS Curator Australian Museum"
The top corners and lower right edge of the drawing have been cut off forming oblique edges
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Signature / Inscriptions
Signed "G. Krefft" and dated on lower left of image
Contextual Information
Source
D.S. Mitchell bequeast, 1907
Administrative / Biographical history
Gerard Krefft, zoologist, artist, and museum curator, arrived in Australia in 1852. He was naturalist to the Victorian Government Collecting Expedition to the lower Murray and Darling Rivers under Wilhelm Blandowski in 1857-1858, then employed at the National Museum, Melbourne to catalogue the expedition's collection. On Governor Denison's recommen...
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Call Numbers
V*/Zoo/4
Record Identifier
n88Ee08n
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n88Ee08n
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Reference code
423227
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