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Panel 3    A Bird in the Hand

Grey Petrel

Henry Constantine Richter (c.18211902)
Procellaria hasitata Kuhl Great Grey Tern [1848]
Modern common name: Grey Petrel
Modern scientific name: Procellaria cinerea
watercolour; 35.8 x 50.5 cm
Rex Nan Kivell Collection
National Library of Australia
T1313 NK5666/4

After Elizabeth Gould's death Richter was one of the artists who took over the lithography for John Gould's The Birds of Australia. As well as producing plates for those volumes, he collaborated with the latter in the drawing, lithographing and hand colouring of the illustrations in The Mammals of Australia which was published in 13 parts (18451863).


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