Summary
This wood engraving by Gerard Krefft of a Pig-footed Bandicoot, Chaeropus ecaudatus, was the result of an historic scientific expedition to north west Victoria in 1857. Museum Victoria's first curator William Blandowski led the remarkable survey to the junction of the Murray and Darling rivers and set up camp at Mondellimin (now known as Chaffey's Landing), just eight kilometres west of the centre of the city of Mildura in Victoria. The expedition dispatched more than 17,000 specimens to Melbourne and unlike the ill fated Burke and Wills expedition that followed in 1860, the entire party returned alive. Blandowski's gifted assistant on the expedition, Gerard Krefft, documented their findings and illustrated a number of species, including the Pig-footed Banidcoot which are now extinct.
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Engraver
Gerard Krefft
"Gerard Krefft -- marsupial mammal engraving - Chaeropus occidentalis [now known as Chaeropus ecaudatus - Pig-footed Bandicoot] - wood engraving on paper. -
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Ink
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Technique
Engraving
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Support
Paper
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Classification
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Taxon Name
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Preferred Common name
Landwang
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Other Common Names
Pig-footed Bandicoot
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Kingdom
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Phylum
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Subphylum
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Class
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Order
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Family
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Genus
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Species Name
ecaudatus
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Type of item
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Exhibition Collection Management
125 mm (Width), 125 mm (Height)
Scientific Illustration - overall dimensions
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Conservation
12.5 cm (Width), 12.5 cm (Height)
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Maximum dimensions
126 mm (Width), 123 mm (Height)
Measurement From Conservation. Paper is not square
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Minimum dimensions
124 mm (Width), 121 mm (Height)
Measurement From Conservation. Paper is not square
