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Image number: RS.10626
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‘A Poto Roo’
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
Zoological study of the Long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) sometimes known as the rat-kangaroo, a marsupial native to Australia.
Plate 60 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The plate is inscribed: “S.Stone delin. A Poto Roo. 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 60 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The plate is inscribed: “S.Stone delin. A Poto Roo. 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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