Southern brown bandicoot
Date
1805
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 128mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of a Southern brown bandicoot, Perameles obesulus, the marsupial native to southern Australia. With a detail of the skull and jaw.
The accompanying article states that: ‘I however presumed this might be the type of a new family; and under this persuasion, knowing that the obesula formed part of the collection of Dr. Hunter, I wrote to England, to Mr. Parkinson, for the information I wished to obtain. I received in return the drawing from which the annexed figure was engraved’.
Plate 2, illustrating the paper: ‘Memoir of a new genus of mammalia with pouches, named Perameles. By E. Geoffroy. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.21, (1805) pp.28-34.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.II Vol.XXI’. Inscribed below: ‘PERAMELES OBESULA. 81’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), French naturalist.
The accompanying article states that: ‘I however presumed this might be the type of a new family; and under this persuasion, knowing that the obesula formed part of the collection of Dr. Hunter, I wrote to England, to Mr. Parkinson, for the information I wished to obtain. I received in return the drawing from which the annexed figure was engraved’.
Plate 2, illustrating the paper: ‘Memoir of a new genus of mammalia with pouches, named Perameles. By E. Geoffroy. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.21, (1805) pp.28-34.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.II Vol.XXI’. Inscribed below: ‘PERAMELES OBESULA. 81’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), French naturalist.
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