The Kongouro from New Holland

[DanaC]

The UK government has stepped in to place an export bar on two paintings by 18th-century artist George Stubbs.

One of the paintings depicts a dingo, and the other a kangaroo. They are credited with being the first introduction the British people had to these animals.

Stubbs had seen neither a dingo nor a kangaroo in the flesh. He worked from the spoken accounts of those who had, as well as a preserved kangaroo skin which he inflated.

Considering what he was working from, I think the kanga is remarkable.



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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21344589