• Title
  File 2: Vignettes and Maps. The Original Artwork of William T. Cooper AO from Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest by Wendy Cooper, ca. 2004
• Call number
  PXE 1495/4
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  ca. 2004
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1024116
• Physical Description
  19 watercolours - 41.0 x 30.0 cm or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  Single watercolour images on acid-free board, including 3 watercolour maps with captioned tracings. Contained in a single quarter green oasis leather and buckram folding box with five raised bands and gilt rule and lettering. Stamped 'Newbold & Collins Sydney' inside tail.
  
  1. Fruits of the Tropical Rainforest Headings: Angiosperms - Flowering plants
  2. Fruits of the Tropical Rainforest Headings: Gymnosperms - Non flowering plants
  3. Crimson Rosella
  4. Collector's Edition Cover Design
  5. Mistletoebird
  6. Green Ringtail Possum [head and torso study]
  7. Spectacled Flying-Fox [head and torso study]
  8. Red-Legged Pademelon [head study]
  9. Giant White-Tailed Rat
  10. Metalic [Metallic] Starling
  11. Magnificent Riflebird [male]
  12. Map 1: Rockhampton to Hinchinbrook Island
  13. Map 2: Hinchinbrook Island to Cooktown
  14. Map 3: Cooktown to Cape York
  15. Australian Brush-Turkey
  16. Musky Rat-Kangaroo
  17. Cassowary [head study]
  18. Figbird
  19. Rose-Crowned Fruit-Dove
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled by the artist under image
• Subject
  Cassowaries--Pictorial works.
  Ornithology--Australia.
  Natural history illustration.
  Queensland--Maps.
  
• Topic
  birds
  rosellas
  possums
  rats
  starlings
  pademelons
  maps
  brush turkeys
  kangaroos
  
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