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Voyage de l'Uranie, oiseaux, Cassican fluteur, White-backed magpie

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Date

19th Century

Artist

Antoine-Germain Bevalet (1779-1850)

Collection

National Library of Australia

Image Link

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2170950

Description

Signed lower left corner in ink; Painting of a magpie likely to have been captured during Captain Freycinet's visit to Sydney in November to December 1819. The painting is a portrait, taken from life, of an individual bird which was presented by Freycinet to the Paris Museum, and which survived in Paris for at least 4 years; Title from Christie's auction catalogue: The Freycinet collection, Thursday 26 September 2002, lot 91. Artist listed as "E. Bevalet"; Condition: Good. Small hole top centre; Inscription: "Mauvais refait"--Upper right across border in pencil and mostly erased (partially covered by mount); Inscription: "Bon a graver [...]"--Bottom centre of sheet (covered by mount). Medium: watercolour and pencil.

Image Licence

Public Domain

Image Credit

Out of Copyright. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia.

Location

Sydney, Australia

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Birds
Fauna

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