IMAGE
Sherriff, George, 1846-1930 :[A victim of the keas. ca 1885]
- Date
- 1885 - 1886
- By
- Sherriff, George, 1846-1930
- Reference
- 1/2-002753-F
- Description
A dead sheep lying in a snowy landscape, with one kea pecking at its flank and two more flying in for an attack
The original painting was shown in London at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886 and in Hobart in 1887. Photographic Archive have a photograph of it hanging at Hobart in the P. A. Saxby Album, no. 2., p. 88. Reproduced as the cover illustration of Marriner, George R. The kea - a New Zealand problem (1908). The location of the original picutre is now unknown. The Library has a photographic copy only.
Quantity: 1 photograph(s).
Physical Description: Photograph of oil painting
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 photograph(s), Works of art, Photograph of oil painting
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