Description
Medium: Pencil illustration.
Summary: Pencil illustration, D215c, of a Red-bellied Black Snake, Pseudechis porphyriacus, from Studley Park, Melbourne, by Arthur Bartholomew; commissioned by Frederick McCoy for Plate 1 in The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria.
This illustration forms part of the much larger Prodromus Collection. Many of the original illustrations in the collection informed the production of the two volume work 'The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria', Museum Victoria's first major publication commencing in 1878.
Physical description: Red-bellied Black Snake, Pseudechis porphyriacus, by Arthur Bartholomew. Illustration D215c, pencil, watercolour, pen and adhesive on paper, 16cm x 27cm, for Plate 1 in The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria by Frederick McCoy.
Image Licence
Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
Image Credit
Image source Museums Victoria
Location
Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne, Australia
Country
Australia
Tags
Category
Flora & Fauna
