'The Tabuan Parrot, Female' mb-artistname Ernst von Liphart South Kensington

South Kensington

Labourers at work on the Metropolitan Railway and the Fleet Ditch

but in the style of William Beechey (1753-1839)

The sponge became a novelty and a wedding gift in Victorian England since it was frequently home to a pairing of male and female shrimps

'The Tabuan Parrot, Female' mb-artistname Ernst von Liphart South KensingtonOrnithological study of a female Australian King Parrot (Alisterus scapularis). Plate 12 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The female is mostly green The above inhabits Botany Bay.' The plate is inscribed: 'S. Stone Delin. The Tabuan Parrot, Female. London Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by I. Debrett.' Original: copperplate engraving. 1790