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
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, 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...”
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...”
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