MONOTREMES (PLATYPUS & ECHIDNA) HISTORICAL SCIART IMAGE BANK

(under construction – more images and notes on the way!) [updated 3 September 2023]

1792 George Shaw – The Naturalist’s Miscellany (1st published scientific description and first published image of an echidna)
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44484379
1799 George Shaw – The Naturalist’s Miscellany (1st published scientific description of a platypus)
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40321089#page/236/mode/1up
1799 George Shaw – The Naturalist’s Miscellany (1st published scientific description of a platypus)
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40321089#page/239/mode/1up
1ST KNOWN EUROPEAN DEPICTION OF A PLATYPUS by Governor John Hunter, 1797 (1802 published version)
https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1385765
1798 Betruch – Bilderbuch für Kinder (1ST PUBLISHED EUROPEAN PLATYPUS IMAGE) https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/bertuch1798bd3/0242/image,info
1ST KNOWN EUROPEAN DEPICTION OF A ECHIDNA c. 1788-92 attributed to the Port Jackson Painter
Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c. 1797 (No. 94)
Natural History Museum London
c. 1792-7 Thomas Watling
Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c. 1797 (No. 93)

Natural History Museum London
c.1790s Lambert Album (possibly J. Whatman 1794) – copy of Watling 93
Pl.10, watercolor on paper

State Library NSW
Thomas Davies FRS FLS (1737-1812)
“Ducks Bill Beaver”

Page from a sketchbook of mammals, fish, and ethnographical objects, c. 1798-1800?
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Thomas Davies’ watercolor illustration accompanying his paper presented to the Linnean Society of London, c. 1800
Linnean Society of London
1800 Thomas Bewick A general history of quadrupeds
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82057#page/544/mode/1up
1800 Thomas Pennant Allgemeine Uebersicht der vierfüssigen Thiere
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57833642#page/471/mode/1up
1803 Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826) Forty-nine original watercolour drawings of animals which were collected when accompanying the voyage under Capt. M. Flinders to Australia. / Plate 12 | Ornithorhynchus anatinus | 335 x 510 mm
Natural History Museum London
1803 Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826) Forty-nine original watercolour drawings of animals which were collected when accompanying the voyage under Capt. M. Flinders to Australia. / Plate 13 | Ornithorhynchus anatinus | 507 x 338 mm
Natural History Museum London
1805 Bertuch – Bilderbuch für Kinder
https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/German-School/978567/Rare-mammals-%28coloured-engraving%29.html
1807 I.W. Lewin
drawing – 21.2 x 29.4 cm – watercolour and pencil
State Library NSW
1810 I.W. Lewin
drawing – 43.8 x 54.3 cm. – watercolour and gouache
State Library NSW
1811 Péron – Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30581332
1813 Betruch – Bilderbuch für Kinder (copy)
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/bertuch1813bd8/0120/image,info

Bullock’s Museum drawings & watercolors of the Platypus Anatinus, 1814, by an unknown English artist
“William Bullock was a nineteenth century naturalist and antiquarian, who established a museum of curiosities in northern England in the late 1790s, which moved to Liverpool in 1801. In 1812 Bullock moved his collections to London and the newly built Egyptian Temple (later Egyptian Hall), Piccadilly, which became an established London landmark, known as the London Museum. It closed in 1819, with some of the collection being auctioned, and some sold to the University of Edinburgh.”
State Library NSW
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yold0LE9
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGdejMY

1816 Bertuch – Bilderbuch für Kinder
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/bertuch1816bd9/0258/image,info
1827 Cuvier – The Animal Kingdom
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103872#page/431/mode/1up
1833  Cuvier – Regne Animal
https://www.sebraprints.com.au/pages/books/3556/fournier-engraver/1-echidne-epineux-2-ornithorinque-roux-echidna-and-platypus
1835 Voyage pittoresque autour du monde
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11121686?page=501
1837 Cuvier – The Animal Kingdom
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28110843
1833-40 (1835) Dictionnaire pittoresque d’histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35962920
1833-40 (1838) Dictionnaire pittoresque d’histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/111202#page/496/mode/1up
1838 Lesson – Compléments de Buffon
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16007939
1838 Lesson – Compléments de Buffon
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16007935
1841 Jardine/Waterhouse – The Naturalist’s Library
https://archive.org/details/marsupialiaorpou00wate/page/n376/mode/1up
1840 Jardine/Waterhouse – The Naturalist’s Library
https://archive.org/details/marsupialiaorpou00wate/page/n368/mode/1up
1842 Jardine – The Naturalist’s Library
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17330483#page/373/mode/1up
1842 Bernard – Le jardin des plantes
https://archive.org/details/lejardindesplant01bern/page/n265/mode/1up
1844 – The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/68338#page/31/mode/1up
1844 Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97331#page/321/mode/1up
1844 Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97331#page/323/mode/1up
1844 Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97331#page/325/mode/1up
c. 1848-1860 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37028049
1849 Orbigny – Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19538029
1850 Popular History of Mammalia; Comprising a Familiar Account of Their Classification and habits
https://www.sebraprints.com.au/pages/books/1131/bw-hawkins-artist-and-lithographer/possum-koala-and-platypus
1851-60 The natural history of the sacred Scriptures, and guide to general zoology
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/229772#page/312/mode/2up
1854 Cuvier – The Animal Kingdom
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1203812
1854 Gervais
https://www.1stdibs.com/art/prints-works-on-paper/figurative-prints-works-on-paper/paul-gervais-animals-on-shore-original-lithograph-paul-gervais-1854/id-a_9378262/
Eugene von Guerard (1811-1901)
Schnabelthier – Ornithorhynchus paradoxus 1 [and a half] Fuss lang mit Schnabel und Schwanz
6 April 1854
1 drawing : watercolour, black ink and pencil on cream paper ; 14.1 x 24.7 cm
State Library Victoria
1860 The Instructive Picture Book
1860 The Instructive Picture Book
1868 The Instructive Picture Book

1863 Gould – The Mammals of Australia
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49738049
1863 Gould – The Mammals of Australia
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49738055
1863 Gould – The Mammals of Australia
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49738059
c.1860s Emil Hochdanz
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mammals_-S%C3%A4ugetiere,_Emil_Hochdanz(5).jpg
1863-79 Atlante Zoologico Popolareopera compilata sui più recenti lavori di zoologia Italiani e stranieri
https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/Raimundo-Petraroja/314303/Duck-Billed-Platypus,-1863-79-.html
1863-79 Atlante Zoologico Popolareopera compilata sui più recenti lavori di zoologia Italiani e stranieri
https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/Raimundo-Petraroja/244855/Short-Beaked-Echidna,-1863-79-.html
1880 Johnson’s Household Book of Nature
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39742713
1886 – source?
https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE616778
1889 Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14751881322/
1889 Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14729207346/
1889 The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka and New Guinea
http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=sea220#page/510/mode/1up
1897 Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (5th ed.)
1894 Lydekker – A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14300112
1894 Lydekker – A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14300122
1900 Naturgeschichte der Säugetiere
https://www.e-rara.ch/stp/content/zoom/27195223
1900 Naturgeschichte der Säugetiere
https://www.e-rara.ch/stp/content/zoom/27195224
c. 1900-1907 Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yuzhakov_Big_Encyclopedia_Australian_fauna.jpg
1901 Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14755130402/
1910 The Book of the Animal Kingdom
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10102980
1909 The Wild Beasts of the World
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19080532
1912 Animal Portraiture
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40033306
1916 Lydekker – Wild life of the world : a descriptive survey of the geographical distribution of animals
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33270440
1916 Heinrich Harder – Tiere der Urwelt / Animals of the Prehistoric World
https://www.mediastorehouse.com.au/mary-evans-prints-online/duck-billed-platypus-ornithorhynchus-anatinus-14211944.html
1919 Genera Mammalium
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32474795
1909 The Wild Beasts of the World
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19080526
1912 Animal Portraiture
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40033310
1916 Lydekker – Wild life of the world : a descriptive survey of the geographical distribution of animals
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33270434
1916 Heinrich Harder – Tiere der Urwelt / Animals of the Prehistoric World
https://www.mediastorehouse.com.au/mary-evans-prints-online/short-beaked-echidna-tachyglossus-aculeatus-14211942.html
1919 Genera Mammalium
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32474793
1922 Animaux venimeux et venins
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12749943
c.1929 A Textbook in General Zoology
https://archive.org/details/textbookingenera1929linv/page/413/mode/1up
1971 Animal Ghosts
https://archive.org/details/animalghosts00walt/page/82/mode/2up

European school poster, late 19th century? Illustrator: Albert Kull (1855-1921)
http://www.collectiontrade.nl/cms/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=29677&category_id=2269&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=35

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