Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21913

    White-breasted sea-eagle

    Date
    1848
    Creator
    Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789 - 1850, British) , Lithographer
    After
    John Gould (1804 - 1881, British) , Ornithologist
    Henry Constantine Richter (1821 - 1902, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Library reference
    41607
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 546mm
    width (print): 357mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Ornithological study of the white-breasted sea-eagle Haliaster leucosternus, Gould. Showing an adult and a young bird at two-thirds of the natural size.

    Inscribed ‘HALIASTUR LEUCOSTERNUS. J. Gould and H.C.Richter del et lith. C. Hullmandel Imp.’

    Illustration from The birds of Australia by John Gould FRS (1848), vol. 1.

    John Gould (1804-1881), British ornithologist and publisher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1843.

    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Oceania
          > Australia
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