• Title
  [The Mammals of Australia], 1869 / prints by Helena Forde and Harriet Scott
• Call number
  DGD 17
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1869
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  440264
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  16 prints - lithographs - 55.3 x 55.5 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1. The Duck-billed Platypus / (Ornithorhynchus Anatinus.) / Helena Forde, del. et lith.
  2. The Australian Hedgehog [i.e. echidna] / (Echidna Hystrix) / Harriet Scott
  3. The Native Cat [i.e. quolls] / (Dasyurus Viverrinus.) / Helena Forde
  4. The Tasmanian Tiger. / (Thylacinus Cynocephalus.) / Harriet Scott
  5. The Black-Striped Wallaby. / (Halmaturus Dorsalis.) / The Common Wallaby. / (Halmaturus Ualabatus.) / Harriet Scott
  6. The Kangaroo. / (Macropus Major.) / Helena Forde
  7. The Kangaroo. / (Macropus Major.) / Harriet Scott
  8. The Sooty Opossum. / (Phalangista Fuliginosa.) / Helena Forde
  9. The Common Opossum. / (Phalangista Vulpina) / Helena Forde
  10. The Ring-Tailed Opossum. / (Phalangista Cooki.) / Harriet Scott
  11. The Native Bear. [i.e. koala] / (Phascolarctos Cinereus.) / Harriet Scott
  12. The Wombat. / (Phascolomys Wombat.) / Harriet Scott
  13. Australian Water-rats. / (Hydromys Chrysogaster.) / (Hydromys Leucogaster.) / Helena Forde
  14. The Sea Leopard. / (Stenorhynchus Leptonyx.) / Harriet Scott
  15. The Dingo, or Native Dog. / (Canis Dingo.) / Helena Forde
  16. The Flying Fox. / (Pteropus Policephalus.) / Helena Forde
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Each print was based on photograph ""from life, by Victor A Prout""
  The prints form a set of uncoloured illustrations that were used for Gerard Krefft's publication, ""The Mammals of Australia""
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled at centre below image in black ink.
  Publication details printed beneath title, ""Sydney, N.S.W. - Thomas Richards, Government Printer - 1869"".
  Artists' details are printed in black ink at lower left beneath image.
  8 drawings are inscribed, ""Helena Forde, del. et lith""
  8 drawings are inscribed, ""Harriet Scott, del. et lith""
• Creator/Author/Artist
  New South Wales. Government Printing Office
  Prout, Victor A. (Victor Albert), b. 1835
  Scott, Harriet, 1830-1907
  Forde, Helena, 1832-1910
  
• Subject
  Tachyglossidae.
  Platypus.
  Thylacine.
  Wombats.
  
• Topic
  cuscus
  dingoes
  fruit-bats
  kangaroos
  koalas
  leopard seals
  natural history illustrations
  plants
  possums
  quolls
  wallabies
  

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