Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10628
Looking for a special gift? Buy a print of this image.
‘A Feather of the Cassowary’
Date
1790
Creator
Edward Kennion (1744 - 1809, British) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
22426
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 292mm
width (print): 225mm
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Studies of a cassowary feather and native Australian fish-hooks. The latter are represented as: Figure A ‘of a hard black, wood-like substance’; and Figure B ‘a hook of mother of pearl’.
Plate 62 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states that: “The feathers of the New Holland Cassowary are of a remarkable construction...It seems incapable of resisting water, or of holding air.”
The plate is inscribed: “Fish Hooks of New So. Wales. A Feather of the Cassowary. E. Kennion delin. London. Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by J.Debrett.”
“The Public may rely, with the most perfect confidence, on the care and accuracy with which the Drawings have been copied from nature, by Miss Stone, Mr.Catton, Mr.Nodder, and other artists; and the Editor flatters himself the Engravings are all executed with equal correctness, by, or under the immediate inspection of Mr.Milton. The Birds, &c. from which the drawings were taken are deposited in the Leverian Museum.”
Plate 62 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states that: “The feathers of the New Holland Cassowary are of a remarkable construction...It seems incapable of resisting water, or of holding air.”
The plate is inscribed: “Fish Hooks of New So. Wales. A Feather of the Cassowary. E. Kennion delin. London. Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by J.Debrett.”
“The Public may rely, with the most perfect confidence, on the care and accuracy with which the Drawings have been copied from nature, by Miss Stone, Mr.Catton, Mr.Nodder, and other artists; and the Editor flatters himself the Engravings are all executed with equal correctness, by, or under the immediate inspection of Mr.Milton. The Birds, &c. from which the drawings were taken are deposited in the Leverian Museum.”
Associated place