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"Black-hooded Creeper"

Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 23 x 17.7 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 184

 

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Bird in profile, facing to the right, perched on a branch against a plain background. The head is brown, the throat white - pale grey, and the back green. The wings and tail are brown overlaid with darker hatched lines. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and anotated in ink and pencil.

 

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