Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9587
Looking for a special gift? Buy a print of this image.
Two studies of a Dodo head
Date
1848
Creator
Joseph Dinkel (1805 - 1891) , Illustrator
After
Roelandt Savery (1576 - 1639, Flemish) , Draftsman
Object type
Library reference
R65401
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 313mm
width (print): 245mm
width (print): 245mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Side views of the head of the Dodo, [Raphus cucullatus], the extinct flightless bird from Mauritius. Figure 1 (facing left as viewed) is a specimen from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Figure 2 (facing right as viewed) is a reconstructed head, based in part on Savery’s painting presented to the British Museum [and now in the Natural History Museum, London] by the naturalist and bird painter George Edwards FRS (1696-1773).
Inscribed below “Jos: Dinkel del et lith. Printed by Hollmandel & Walton.”
Plate 5 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).
Inscribed below “Jos: Dinkel del et lith. Printed by Hollmandel & Walton.”
Plate 5 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).
Associated place