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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Historical
• Sale Date:
  29 May 2021 ~ 11am (AEST) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 684
  30 May 2021 ~ 11am (AEST) - Session 2: Lots 685 - 1314
• Lot #:
  952
• Lot Description:
  Engraved by William Byrne
  After a painting by George Stubbs
  An animal found on the coast of New Holland, called Kanguroo [kangaroo] (untitled), overall 28.5 x 28cm. Accompanied by another plate (No.5) by Woollett, which has an ex-library handstamp. (2 items).
• Notes:
  This print appeared in the relevant part of John Hawkesworth’s, ‘An account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty, for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere (1773), vol 3, plate no. 20, p. 277. Cook first himself saw one of these creatures on 24 June and noted on 4 August that ‘the Animal which I have before mentioned is called by the natives Kangooroo or Kanguru’. The image was based on the probably stuffed or inflated skin of a wallaby that Banks’s greyhound had caught at Endeavour River, Queensland, in July 1770, and the skulls of kangaroos which Cook’s party had shot and eaten while they were repairing the ‘Endeavour’ there after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef, during the voyage of 1768-71.
• Estimate:
  A$300 - 500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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