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Panel 2    Brilliant Curiosities

Dodo and Red Parakeet

Attributed to William Hodges (17441797)
Dodo and Red Parakeet c.1773
oil on academy board; 23 x 27.5 cm
Rex Nan Kivell Collection
National Library of Australia
T384 NK5827

In this painting the parakeet and its zoo-fattened companion, the extinct Dodo of Mauritius, foretell the long period of bird destruction which followed the European incursion into the southern hemisphere (the Dodo succumbed to seamen and animals off visiting ships). The date of this painting is derived from its Rex Nan Kivell attribution, and is doubtful.


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