#MonotremeMonday :
Liebig Chromos trade card series 1359, MAMMIFÈRES BIZARRES: 6)L’0rnithorhynque ( #Platypus ), 1937
7.1 x 11cm
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_110584_Liebig_Chromos.jpg
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#MonotremeMonday classic:
Plate LXIV Monotremata
Johnson’s Household Book of Nature, 1880
“Porcupine Anteater” = #Echidna
“Duck Mole” = #Platypus
via Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122829#page/1036/mode/1up
#MonotremeMonday:
#Echidna #petroglyph, 90cm
from the 'Echidna and Fish' site at West Head in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, NSW, Australia
via Australian Museum: https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/australian-archaeology/indigenous-rock-engraving-of-an-echidna/
![“Engraved on a horizontal Hawkesbury sandstone platform, [the echidna] has 12 infill lines from head to tail representing the echidna's quills. The photograph was taken in the late afternoon when the sun's slanting rays throw the grooves into relief. The pale greenish-coloured spots are lichen growing on the sandstone.” “It is difficult to date the echidna engraving using current scientific techniques, particularly as there is no soil covering it. Dating is also difficult because re-grooving sometimes occurs during later ceremonies. However the style of the drawing, known as 'simple figurative', and its state of preservation suggests it was made in the last few thousand years. The simple figurative style is confined to the region.”](https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/112/912/368/289/905/055/original/684887ac7be5f47d.png "“Engraved on a horizontal Hawkesbury sandstone platform, [the echidna] has 12 infill lines from head to tail representing the echidna's quills. The photograph was taken in the late afternoon when the sun's slanting rays throw the grooves into relief. The pale greenish-coloured spots are lichen growing on the sandstone.” “It is difficult to date the echidna engraving using current scientific techniques, particularly as there is no soil covering it. Dating is also difficult because re-grooving sometimes occurs during later ceremonies. However the style of the drawing, known as 'simple figurative', and its state of preservation suggests it was made in the last few thousand years. The simple figurative style is confined to the region.”")
For #MonotremeMonday, two #echidnas from the National Gallery of Victoria collection:
1. Lena Djamarayku (Rembarrnga, NT, b. c.1948)
Echidna, 1998
earth pigments on Paperbark (Melaleuca sp.), wood & pandanus (Pandanus sp.) fibre, echidna quills
25.5×80.0×21.0cm
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/66046/
2. Yvonne Koolmatrie (Ngarrindjeri, SA, b. 1944)
Echidna, 1999
sedge (Carex sp.), echidna quills
14.3×47.4×28.3cm
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/66175/
#MonotremeMonday:
Ngarrbek, The #Echidna, 1948
Unidentified First Nations artist, Kunbarllanjnja (Oenpelli), Northern Territory, Australia
earth pigments on Stringybark (Eucalyptus sp.), 26.3 × 51.4 cm
National Gallery of Victoria O.10-1956: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/2107/
#FirstNationsArt #AboriginalArt #IndigenousArt
Just in time for #MonotremeMonday, an update to the #Monotremes (#Platypus & #Echidna) Historical #SciArt Image Bank - many new finds added! https://arthistoryanimalia.com/monotremes-platypus-echidna-historical-sciart-image-bank/
ART HISTORY ANIMALIA – exploring animal iconography from around the world, ancient to modern · MONOTREMES (PLATYPUS & ECHIDNA) HISTORICAL SCIART IMAGE BANK – ART HISTORY ANIMALIA(under construction - more images and notes on the way!) [updated 6 Jan 2025] 1800 Shaw / Heath - General Zoology, Or Systemic Natural History: Vol. I, Part 1: MammaliaBHL "An early description of the platypus with the author referring to Blumenbach's article published in 1800 which gave its scientific name. Calkoen states he received
#MarsupialMonday + #MonotremeMonday pair:
James E Bourhill (British, fl.1880-1887)
1. Red #Kangaroo, 1885
oil on canvas 22½ x 31 in
2. Duck-Billed #Platypus, 1886
oil on canvas 22¼ x 30½ in
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Red-Kangaroo/4C3E659DDD21E9C3
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Duck-Billed-Platypus/AD7747DB3CFF54A3
#monotremes #marsupials #AustralianAnimals
#MonotremeMonday:
Ainslie Roberts (Australian, 1911-1993)
The Dancing #Echidna, n.d.
Oil on board, 75 x 75 cm
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-Dancing-Echidna/B5D8C1A3BD5165E8
#MonotremeMonday :
Kordelia Zansui Chi (Australian, b. 1967)
#Echidna, 1996
hand-colored linocut, 15 x 15 cm
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Echidna/2CAE714346BB1DA464DD1D954CF22087
Something cute and fun for #MonotremeMonday featuring my favorite animal on the planet:
Chris Orr (English, b. 1943)
#Platypus on Holiday, 1967
Watercolor on paper, 10 x 15 cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/PLATYPUS-ON-HOLIDAY/8E45E60C10FC9D9B39B6FEA9182F8C82
A #platypus picture for #MonotremeMonday: Pl. XIII in Animaux venimeux et venins, 1922, via BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12749943#page/867/
Continued thread
These images along with a few other recent finds have also just been added to the Monotremes Historical SciArt Image Bank on the website:
https://arthistoryanimalia.com/monotremes-platypus-echidna-historical-sciart-image-bank/
ART HISTORY ANIMALIA – exploring animal iconography from around the world, ancient to modern · MONOTREMES (PLATYPUS & ECHIDNA) HISTORICAL SCIART IMAGE BANK – ART HISTORY ANIMALIA(under construction - more images and notes on the way!) [updated 6 Jan 2025] 1800 Shaw / Heath - General Zoology, Or Systemic Natural History: Vol. I, Part 1: MammaliaBHL "An early description of the platypus with the author referring to Blumenbach's article published in 1800 which gave its scientific name. Calkoen states he received
#MonotremeMonday: Some pages from an 1814 collection of Bullock's Museum pictures of a #Platypus specimen by an unknown English artist.
See them all via State Library NSW:
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yold0LE9
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGdejMY
"William Bullock was a 19th c. naturalist & antiquarian who established a museum of curiosities in the late 1790s…in 1812 he moved his collections to the newly built Egyptian Temple, Piccadilly, which became the London Museum."
![watercolor illustration of a platypus specimen, with notes: "2. Platypus Anatinus / Bullock's Mus. March 1814 / From Nature - probably the difference between this specimen, and the figure in the / Naturalists Miscellany may be sexual. NB. the drawing from that, is of the size of / nature about 13 inches in length, this drawis [i.e. drawing] is of 1/2 the size of Nature wh [i.e. which] is 23 Inches"](https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/110/770/832/966/445/143/original/177acaf81f4f20a5.png "watercolor illustration of a platypus specimen, with notes: \"2. Platypus Anatinus / Bullock's Mus. March 1814 / From Nature - probably the difference between this specimen, and the figure in the / Naturalists Miscellany may be sexual. NB. the drawing from that, is of the size of / nature about 13 inches in length, this drawis [i.e. drawing] is of 1/2 the size of Nature wh [i.e. which] is 23 Inches\"")
@webuiltthiscity Saw and thought of you:
#MammalMonday #MarsupialMonday #MonotremeMonday mashup:
"Scene in #Tasmania, with Characteristic Mammalia": #Thylacines, #Bandicoots, #Wombats, and an #Echidna!
Pl.XI in Alfred Russel Wallace's The Geographical Distribution of Animals Vol. 1, 1876; illustration by Johann Baptist Zwecker.
https://archive.org/details/geographicaldist01wall2/page/n503/mode/1up
#biogeography #zoology #naturalhistoryart #sciart #bookart
https://historians.social/@art_history_animalia/110653225754500667
Internet ArchiveThe geographical distribution of animals, with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth's surface : Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive2 v. 23 cm
#MammalMonday #MarsupialMonday #MonotremeMonday mashup:
"Scene in #Tasmania, with Characteristic Mammalia": #Thylacines, #Bandicoots, #Wombats, and an #Echidna!
Pl.XI in Alfred Russel Wallace's The Geographical Distribution of Animals Vol. 1, 1876; illustration by Johann Baptist Zwecker.
https://archive.org/details/geographicaldist01wall2/page/n503/mode/1up
For #MonotremeMonday: fully updated #monotremes image bank with several new images added of #platypus & #echidna historical #sciart:
https://arthistoryanimalia.com/monotremes-platypus-echidna-historical-sciart-image-bank/
ART HISTORY ANIMALIA – exploring animal iconography from around the world, ancient to modern · MONOTREMES (PLATYPUS & ECHIDNA) HISTORICAL SCIART IMAGE BANK – ART HISTORY ANIMALIA(under construction - more images and notes on the way!) [updated 6 Jan 2025] 1800 Shaw / Heath - General Zoology, Or Systemic Natural History: Vol. I, Part 1: MammaliaBHL "An early description of the platypus with the author referring to Blumenbach's article published in 1800 which gave its scientific name. Calkoen states he received
Replied to Art History Animalia
@art_history_animalia I wish every day could be #monotrememonday
#MonotremeMonday:
Plate LXIV Monotremata
Johnson’s Household Book of Nature, 1880
“Porcupine Anteater” = #Echidna & “Duck Mole” = #Platypus
via BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122829#page/1036/mode/1up
