Australian Snake and Muricated Lizard engraving, White's Journal c1790.

by White, John

Antique print of the Jacky Lizard (amphibolurus muricatus) with Brown-banded Snake, c1790.

Rare original hand-coloured copperplate engraving after Sarah Stone for John White, a keen amateur naturalist and Surgeon-General of the First Fleet and Settlement at Sydney in Australia. Published in London by J. Debrett circa 1790, for White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales.

In good conditon, page size is 215 x 280 mm (8.5 x 11 inches).