Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10614
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‘The White Hawk’
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 white variety of the Grey Goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae) a bird native to Australia. Shown in a mountainous landscape, perched on a branch.
Plate 35 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states that: “This species, in shape and general appearance, seems very nearly allied to the bird called, in England, the Hen-Harrier...the whole plumage is white, without any variegation.”
The plate is inscribed: “S.Stone Delin. The White Hawke. London Publish’d 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 35 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states that: “This species, in shape and general appearance, seems very nearly allied to the bird called, in England, the Hen-Harrier...the whole plumage is white, without any variegation.”
The plate is inscribed: “S.Stone Delin. The White Hawke. London Publish’d 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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