• Title
  Bullock's Museum watercolour drawings of the Platypus Anatinus, 1814 / [by unknown artist, English school]
• Creator
  London Museum (1812-1819)
• Call number
  V/106
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1814
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  442303
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 watercolours - 22.7 x 31.4 cm. and 23.1 x 28.2 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William Bullock was a nineteenth century naturalist and antiquarian, who established a museum of curiosities in northern England in the late 1790s, which moved to Liverpool in 1801. In 1812 Bullock moved his collections to London and the newly built Egyptian Temple (later Egyptian Hall), Piccadilly, which became an established London landmark, known as the London Museum. It closed in 1819, with some of the collection being auctioned, and some sold to the University of Edinburgh. -- Curator's notes, 2004
• Scope and Content
  1. Platypus Anatinus / From the Nat. Miscel. augmented to the Natural Size
  2. Platypus Anatinus / Bullock's Mus. March 1814 / From Nature - probably the difference between this specimen, and the figure in the / Naturalists Miscellany may be sexual. NB. the drawing from that, is of the size of / nature about 13 inches in length, this drawis [i.e. drawing] is of 1/2 the size of Nature wh [i.e. which] is 23 Inches
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  These drawings are part of a set of drawings, by the same artist, previously acquired by the Library. See `Bullock's Museum - drawings of the Platypus Anatinus, 1814' (PXA 1014).
  "Nat. Miscel." refers to The naturalist's miscellany, or, Coloured figures of natural objects drawn and described immediately from nature / George Shaw, Frederick P. Nodder. London : F.P. Nodder, [1813 or 1814]
  An illustration of a stuffed platypus on display in a London museum showcase is the frontispiece to "Fanny and Mary, or Juvenile views of Happiness", London, Harvey and Darton, 1821 (Mitchell Library call no. 823.7/3)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874380
• Subject
  Animals--Identification.
  Platypus--Pictorial works.
  Zoology.
  
• Topic
  natural history illustrations
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3320764

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