• Title
  Thick billd [i.e. billed] thrush, inhabits New Zealand, Dusky Bay & Queen Charlotte Sound, called Golobeoo, 1820 / by Richard Read Senior
• Creator
  Richard Read, approximately 1765-1827?
• Call number
  SV*/Bird/NZ/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1820
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457657
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - image 42.9 x 29.4 cm., on board 45.3 x 35.4 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Probably South Island Thrush or Piopio (turnagra capensis). Forster procured it at both Dusky Sound & Queen Charlotte Sound in 1773 (On Cook's second voyage, George Forster was responsible for drawing the birds while his father, Johann Reinhold Forster provided descriptions and classified them)
  
  Copy print available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:a1528519
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled at lower centre. Above title is inscribed "Drawn from nature by R. Read, Sen, 1820 N.S. Wales"
• Subject
  Ornithological illustration.
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3234670

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