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Image number: RS.10583
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‘The Crested Cockatoo’
Date
1790
Creator
Sarah Stone (1760 - 1844, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
22426
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 292mm
width (print): 225mm
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Ornithological study of a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) native to Australia.
Plate 26 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states that: “The bird seems liable to great variation both as to size and colour; the white in some being of much purer appearance than in others, and the yellow on the crest and tail more predominant. All the varieties agree in having the beak and legs blackish.”
The plate is inscribed: “S.Stone Delin. The Crested Cockatoo, London Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by I.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 26 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states that: “The bird seems liable to great variation both as to size and colour; the white in some being of much purer appearance than in others, and the yellow on the crest and tail more predominant. All the varieties agree in having the beak and legs blackish.”
The plate is inscribed: “S.Stone Delin. The Crested Cockatoo, London Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by I.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.”
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