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Artist unknown: Pachyptilla Forsteri
- Date
- [ca 1840]
- By
- Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867; Jardine, William (Sir), 1800-1874
- Reference
- A-470-011
- Description
Hand-coloured engraving of a Broad-billed Prion with the caption 'Pachyptilla Forsteri', a synonym for Pachyptila vittata.
Plate 47 from William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby, 'Illustrations of Ornithology', Edinburgh: Lizars, 1826-1843.
Title supplied by Library
Inscriptions: Verso - top left - John Prideaux Selby [in pencil]
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving on paper, 305 x 222 mm.
Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Waterloo, Lower Hutt, August 2015.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Scientific illustrations, Hand-coloured engraving on paper, 305 x 222 mm.
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