Summary:
BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE HAWKINS Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae. Hand-coloured lithograph, 55 × 73 cm; 1840s. With the bowerbird below, one of the few double-page spreads in The Birds of Australia and the only one drawn and transferred to stone by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a famous English sculptor and natural history artist. He most likely saw Emus in the menagerie and aviary of the Earl of Derby when he was commissioned to paint its inhabitants.
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