vibrant acrylic painting of a trio of numbats sitting together on a log

For #WorldNumbatDay :
Wendy Binks (Australia)
Wide World, 2015
Acrylic on canvas, 46 x 56 x 4cm
www.numbat.org.au/news/2015/5/...
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Resharing for #WorldNumbatDay

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ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Numbat Day: Europe’s first published images – ART HISTORY ANIMALIA Happy Word Numbat Day! The first published image of a numbat accompanied its 1836 scientific description; see it and other 19th century plates in this gallery.

From the blog: ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for #WorldNumbatDay: Europe’s first published images arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/11/04/a...

digital scan of the original drawing, numbat in side profile in a landscape eating ants/termites, black/white pen & ink with handwritten title and notes (transcribed in post)

For #WorldNumbatDay:
"An ant-eater, Fowlers Bay, South Australia" by Edward Russell, 1870
pen & ink, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
inscription: "Length fr. top of nose to top of tail 10 inches, colour a red brown & white stripes."
National Library of Australia:
catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/425038
#numbat #numbats

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Numbat Day: Europe’s first published images – ART HISTORY ANIMAL... Happy Word Numbat Day! The first published image of a numbat accompanied its 1836 scientific description; see it and other 19th century plates in this gallery.

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for #WorldNumbatDay: Europe’s first published #numbat images
arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/11/04/a...