drawing
- Museum number
- 1914,0520.398
- Description
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Variety of woodpecker (picus enythrocephalus? - King George's Sound); grey-black wings and tail touched with white, with bright red head and throat and pale yellow underneath, perched on a tree trunk to right. 1778
Watercolour, over graphite
- Production date
- 1778
- Dimensions
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Height: 261 millimetres
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Width: 173 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Fish and birds drawn during Captain Cook's third voyage, 1776-1780. Inscribed with ref: Latham, p.561, no.8.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1914
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1914,0520.398