• Title
  [Kangaroo Head] / by Gerard Krefft, 1861
• Creator
  Gerard Krefft, 1830-1881
• Call number
  V*/Zoo/4
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1861
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  423227
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 53 x 38 cm. - on card
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Gerard Krefft, zoologist, artist, and museum curator, arrived in Australia in 1852. He was naturalist to the Victorian Government Collecting Expedition to the lower Murray and Darling Rivers under Wilhelm Blandowski in 1857-1858, then employed at the National Museum, Melbourne to catalogue the expedition's collection. On Governor Denison's recommendation, Krefft was appointed Assistant Curator at the Australian Museum in Sydney from 1860-1864, and then Curator from 1864-1876. Krefft expanded the Australian Museum's collection and won international repute as a scientist, corresponding with Charles Darwin, Sir Richard Owen, and Albert Gunther of the British Museum.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Museum online Feb. 2003. & Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.5, 1851-1890. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1974
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A non-contemporaneous label accompanies this drawing and has been affixed to Library mount; "Water color [colour] drawing of a 'Kangaroo head' (signed picture) by the late Gerard Krefft FLS CMZS Curator Australian Museum"
  The top corners and lower right edge of the drawing have been cut off forming oblique edges
  Related Material: Gerard Krefft - album of watercolour drawings, ca. 1857-1858, 1861, 1866
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed "G. Krefft" and dated on lower left of image
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Kangaroos--Pictorial works.
  
• Topic
  natural history illustrations
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8815680

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