![An Animal found on the Coast of New Holland, [called] Kangaroo.](jpegs/43948.jpg)
An Animal found on the Coast of New Holland, [called] Kangaroo.Wonderful Museum.
Thornton sculp [after George Stubbs.]
[n.d., c.1793.]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed into title, stained.
Early engraving of a kangaroo, based on the Stubbs's illustration from Hawkesworth, but reversed and with a 'joey' in its pouch. This version was first published in Hogg's 'A new, authentic and complete collection of Voyages round the world', 1784-6, but the joey was added for this publication, a British general interest periodical.
Lennox-Boyd, Dixon & Clayton: George Stubbs, 374, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 43948] £120.00
[n.d., c.1793.]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed into title, stained.
Early engraving of a kangaroo, based on the Stubbs's illustration from Hawkesworth, but reversed and with a 'joey' in its pouch. This version was first published in Hogg's 'A new, authentic and complete collection of Voyages round the world', 1784-6, but the joey was added for this publication, a British general interest periodical.
Lennox-Boyd, Dixon & Clayton: George Stubbs, 374, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 43948] £120.00