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Happy #WorldNumbatDay!

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ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Numbat Day: Europe’s first published images

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Numbat Day: Europe’s first published images – ART HISTORY ANIMALIA
Happy Word Numbat Day! The first published image of a numbat accompanied its 1836 scientific description; see it and other 19th century plat
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Plate XXVII from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London V.2, the illustration accompanying George Waterhouse's first scientific description of the Numbat as Myrmecobius fasciatus, 1836.

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For #WorldNumbatDay:

catalogue.nla.gov.au

"An ant-eater, Fowlers Bay, South Australia" by Edward Russell, 1870

pen & ink, 11.4 x 17.8 cm

inscription: "Length fr. top of nose to top of tail 10 inches, colour a red brown & white stripes."

National Library of Australia

#animals in art#animal holiday#illustration#numbat#World Numbat Day#drawing#Edward Russell#marsupial#Australian art#colonial art#Australian animals#Australian wildlife#19th century art#National Library of Australia
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