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Paradisea sanguinea

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Title

Paradisea sanguinea

Date

1877

Creator

Gould, John , 1804-1881 (artist)
Hart, William Matthew , 1830-1908 (artist)

Description

Drawing depicting: Paradisaea rubra -- Red Bird-of-Paradise. Alternate name on piece: Paradisea sanguinea [Red bird of paradise]

Note

Tracing on tissue. Working from Gould 1855, the foliage has been elaborated and added to, and a wingtip of the front bird changed; this change was not adopted for the published plate. Reversed on the stone.

Subject

Ornithology
Ornithological illustration

Gould number

1856

URI

https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-gould/18471

Call number

Ellis Aves H129

Rights statement

This work is free of known copyright restrictions.

Rights URI

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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