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Birds of Australia Exhibition

To: Jan England <>
Subject: Birds of Australia Exhibition
From: Scot Mcphee <>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:59:27 +1000


Jan

The tour that you had was only for yesterday, according to the website. Damn! The exhibition is on until 9 March.

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibit/cur#birds

scot



On 12-01-2008, at 9:05 AM, Jan England wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Yesterday I had the pleasure of going to Brisbane to see the Exhibition of Birds of Australia at the State Library.

The Exhibition consists of a 19th century Glass Bird Dome of birds collected around the Gympie area, as well as the original works of The Birds of Australia by Gould, illustrations by Silvester Diggles, Charles Hirst and Gregory Matthews and a small Alphabet Bird Book in concertina form as well as a sculpture of a Dusky Robin carved into a book by Kylie Stillman. The display also included a painting by Anthony Alder who was a taxidermist for the Queensland Museum in 1907 and specimens from the museum including Albert's Lyrebird. Robert Mahoney from Birds Queensland gave an introduction to each of the items on display and a discourse on the life and works of John Gould.

It was wonderful to have the opportunity to actually see and handle (with white gloves of course) the 6 fascimilied volumes of The Birds of Australia by Gould & Richter as well as those works by Morris and other authors and Forshaw's book Birds of the World illustrated by William Cooper.

To be able to actually turn the pages and admire each painting was an experience I never thought I would ever have. It would require many hours to really appreciate the extent of the works on display.

Congratulations to all those who were involved in organising and setting it up.

Jan England



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