Twelve-wired bird of paradise (Seleucidis melanoleuca), Papua New Guinea, 1917 [picture] / Ellis Rowan
- Bib ID:
- 214297
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Rowan, Ellis, 1848-1922
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1917
- 1 painting : gouache and watercolour on muslin ; diam. 16.6 cm.
- Series:
- Birds of paradise, Papua New Guinea, 1917.
- Notes:
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- Title based on information from ornithologist from the CSIRO. See acquisition file number NLA/15115.
- Watercolour signed by artist.
- "A rare inhabitant of the swamp rainforests of lowland New Guinea. The figure is a caricature with yellow plumes extending beyond the tail instead of covering the lower breast and belly. The background, of what looks like Wisteria, is also out-of-place."--Accompanying notes.
- Condition: Good, mounted and glazed (diam. 19.4 cm.)
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-139478270
- Subject:
- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: The Flower Hunter: Ellis Rowan, National Library of Australia Travelling Exhibition, September 2003-2005.
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Birds of paradise, Papua New Guinea, 1917.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1922
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1917
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