Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9584
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The Dodo
Date
1848
After
Roelandt Savery (1576 - 1639, Flemish) , Draftsman
Object type
Library reference
R65401
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 313mm
width (print): 313mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of the Dodo, [Raphus cucullatus], the extinct flightless bird from Mauritius. The bird appears with a rock bearing the artist’s name: ROELANDT. SAVERY FE 1626.”
Inscribed below “Fac-simile of Savery’s picture of the DODO, in the Royal Gallery at Berlin.”
Frontispiece and plate 1 from The Dodo and its kindred; or the history, affinities, and osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands of Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon, by H.E.Strickland and A.G.Melville (London, 1848). An additional descriptive detail appears in the list of plates “...Roland Savery’s figure of the Dodo in his picture of the Fall of Adam...” [Strickland p.135]. Although the authors are very specific about many of the drawings, reproduction techniques and artists employed for the other plates in the book, the printmaker for this illustration is not stated.
Inscribed below “Fac-simile of Savery’s picture of the DODO, in the Royal Gallery at Berlin.”
Frontispiece and plate 1 from The Dodo and its kindred; or the history, affinities, and osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands of Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon, by H.E.Strickland and A.G.Melville (London, 1848). An additional descriptive detail appears in the list of plates “...Roland Savery’s figure of the Dodo in his picture of the Fall of Adam...” [Strickland p.135]. Although the authors are very specific about many of the drawings, reproduction techniques and artists employed for the other plates in the book, the printmaker for this illustration is not stated.
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