Title:
The Naturalists Companion containing drawings with suitable descriptions of a vast variety of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpent and Insects; & accurately copied either from Living Animals or from the stuffed Specimens in the Museums of the College and Dublin Society, to which is added drawings of several antiquities, natural productions &c containd in those Museums -- illustrated manuscript by Kenelm Henry Digby
Creator:
- Kenelm Henry Digby, 1800-1880
Date of work:
1812-1816. It suggested that the volume dates between the arrival of the stuffed giraffe at the Trinity College Dublin Museum in late 1812, and October 1814 when Digby was admitted into Trintiy College Cambridge: see Rachel Hand "A number of highly interesting objects: the Cook-Voyage collections of Trinity College Dublin" in Jeremy Coote ed., "Cook-Voyage Collections of 'Artificial Curiousities' in Britian and Ireland 1771-2015" (MEG Occasional Papers no.5), Museum Ethnographers Group, Oxford, 2015, p.180. However the Dictionary of National Biography suggests he moved to Cambridge in 1816.
Type of material:
- Graphic Materials
- Watercolours