- Bib ID:
- 647799
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Arago, J. (Jacques), 1790-1855
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [18--]
- 1 painting : watercolour and pencil ; image 20.3 x 26.5 cm., on sheet 27.8 x 33.7 cm.
- Notes:
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- Signed lower right corner.
- Condition: Some foxing.
- Inscriptions: "Voyage de l'Uranie, oiseaux, pl. no. 3."--Centre left. "N'lle Holland"--Bottom centre.
- Painting of a bird, probably a Regent Honeyeater (Xanthomyza phrygia), likely to have been observed or captured during Captain Freycinet's visit to Sydney in November to December 1819.
- Title from Christie's auction catalogue: The Freycinet Collection, Thursday 26 September 2002, lot 91.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136797038
- Source of Acquisition:
- Part of the Freycinet Collection of Southern Equities Corporation Ltd.
- Subject:
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- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: Treasures Gallery, National Library of Australia, 17A April, 2017
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1855
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1899
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