Queensland Tree-Kangaroo antique print. Australian Tree Kangaroo c1896.

by Lydekker, Richard

Antique print of Lumhotz's Tree-Kangaroo of North Queensland. Gorgeous rare kangaroo that lives in the trees of the Far North Queensland rainforest.

Colour-printed c1896 by Wyman & Sons Ltd for A Hand-book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata by Richard Lydekker, B.A., F.R.S., Vice-President of the Geological Society, etc., etc., as part of (Edward) Lloyd's Natural History, edited by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, L.L.D., F.L.S., &c.

Wyman & Sons coloured the steel plates engraved and published c1841 by William Home Lizars (1788-1859) Sir William Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library. In the original publication each of the fine steel engraved portraits of marsupials by Lizars was highlighted by hand-colour, against an uncoloured habitat background.

Page size is 180 x 120 mm (7 x 4 3/4 inches)