NHD1/1-31; NHD2/285; NHD2/300-302 Marsden Collection 39 drawings from the collections formed by William Marsden (1754-1836) between 1784 and 1808 for ...
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NHD1/1-31; NHD2/285; NHD2/300-302 Marsden Collection 39 drawings from the collections formed by William Marsden (1754-1836) between 1784 and 1808 for a third edition (London, 1811) of the ‘Historv of Sumatra’. (For Marsden, see Archer's Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library, pp....
Malabar Pied Hornbill ‘Anthracoceros coronatus’ Original inscriptions: ‘A sketch of the female kalas of Ceylon. Head of the young kalas. Kalao, Buceros pica. Scopoli - Buceros Monocera. Shaw’ Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: Accompanied by a handwritten note in French giving a de...
Water Buffalo ‘Bubalus arnee’ Original inscriptions: ‘Common Buffalo (Blyth); Drawn by Mr. Bell; Presented by Mrs. Marsden; Sumatra, Marsden’ Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note:
Greater Chevrotain (greater mouse deer) ‘Tragulus napu’ Original inscriptions: ‘Stautegana; Very small animals not above a foot high……….be kept down in the Plate.’ Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: A pair are shown
Muntjac (barking deer; kijang) ‘Muntiacus muntjac’ Original inscriptions: ‘Keejang, a species of the Musk Deer; Sumatra, Marsden’ Artist: Medium: Watercolour with pen and ink Size: Note: