MAKE A MEME View Large Image Edwards' Dodo.jpg 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 ...
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Keywords: Edwards' Dodo.jpg 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 Natural History Museum London http //julianhume co uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/History-of-the-dodo-Hume pdf late 1620s Creator Roelant Savery Credit line Presented to the British Museum by George Edwards in 1759 having previously been in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane cite web http //www nhm ac uk/nature-online/art-nature-imaging/collections/art-themes/caught_in_oils/more/dodo_more_info htm Dodo more information Natural History Museum 6 July 2013 PD-old-100 ImageNote 1 1113 598 207 302 1322 1071 2 Possible red rail ImageNoteEnd 1 Raphus cucullatus in 17th century art Paintings of animals by Roelant Savery George Edwards Hans Sloane Aphanapteryx Extinct birds illustrated while extant Parrots in paintings Birds facing left Ara martinica Ara guadeloupensis Collections of the Natural History Museum London Paintings in London Paintings of extinct animals
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