Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.9586
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    Dodo, with Cassowary and Heron [?]

    Date
    1848
    After
    Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818 - 1889, Swiss) , Traveller
    Roelandt Savery (1576 - 1639, Flemish) , Draftsman
    Object type
    Library reference
    R65401
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 245mm
    width (print): 313mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Study of the Dodo, [Raphus cucullatus], the extinct flightless bird from Mauritius, with two other birds represented in line only. The Dodo is shown looking at an eel or fish at the water’s edge.

    Inscribed below “Fac-simile of Savery’s picture of the DODO, in the Bellvedere at Vienna.”

    Plate 3 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).

    The commentary [pp.30-31] and list of plates within Strickland [p.135] provide additional and process details on this plate: “Dr J.J. de Tschudi, the eminent Peruvian traveller...has had the kindness to transmit to me an exact copy of a figure of the Dodo by Roland Savery...in the Imperial Collection of the Bellvedere at Vienna...this picture is dated 1628...”
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Africa
          > Mauritius
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