File:Edwards' Dodo.jpg
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Summary
The Dodo
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The Dodo |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | animal art | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
One of the most famous and often-copied paintings of a Dodo specimen, as painted by Roelant Savery in the late 1620s. The image came into the possession of the ornithologist George Edwards, who later gave it to the British Museum, hence the name. The bird swallowing a frog in the lower right may be the likewise extinct Red Rail. It has also been suggested that the two parrots are the extinct Lesser Antillean Macaw (left) and Martinique Macaw (right). |
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| Date | late 1620s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 82 cm (32.2 in) ; width: 102 cm (40.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Natural History Museum, London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1099/05 (Natural History Museum) |
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| Credit line | Presented to the British Museum by George Edwards in 1759, having previously been in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | Dodo more information. Natural History Museum. Retrieved on 6 July 2013. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://julianhume.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/History-of-the-dodo-Hume.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
| Annotations | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
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| current | 00:19, 2 August 2012 | No thumbnail | 2,000 × 1,605 (4.19 MB) | commonswiki>FunkMonk | Colour correction. |
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