• Title
  The Duck-billed platypus - Ornithorynchus Paradoxus
• Creator
  Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
• Call number
  SV/59
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  probably 1853
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  65972
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - colour wood engraving (chromoxylograph) - 33.6 x 26.9 cm (trimmed)
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This sheet appears to have been cut from a book, possibly the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge 1853 publication of 150 coloured prints of animals, with concise descriptions (British Library).
  Colour transparency digitised 1999
  Digital order no:sv59
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title printed beneath image. Printed beneath image is a descriptive text about the platypus. Printed beneath descriptive text 'Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Price 3/4d. plain; 2d. coloured / R. Clay, Printer Bread Street Hill'. At lower left is printed '127.]'.
• Subject
  Platypus--Pictorial works.
  

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