Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10625
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‘A Tapoa Tafa’ [Eastern quoll]
Date
1790
Creator
Charles Catton, the younger (1756 - 1819, British) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
22426
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 292mm
width (print): 225mm
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of the Eastern Quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), a marsupial originally native to Australia (but now extinct there) found also in Tasmania.
Plate 59 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states that this is the same species as the preceding plate (of the Brush-tailed phascogale) but is most likely a near-black variety of the Quoll.
The plate is inscribed: “C. Catton junr. Delin. A Tapoa Tafa. 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 59 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The accompanying text states that this is the same species as the preceding plate (of the Brush-tailed phascogale) but is most likely a near-black variety of the Quoll.
The plate is inscribed: “C. Catton junr. Delin. A Tapoa Tafa. 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.”
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