Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21925

    White goshawk

    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 goshawk, Astur novæ-hollandiæ, Vig. and Horsf., Albino, showing a male and female bird of the natural size. The small male is perched on a branch and the larger female is shown in a landscape consuming a large rodent.

    Inscribed ‘ASTUR NOVÆ-HOLLANDIÆ White Variety? 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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