Kangaroo prints
Kangaroos and wallabies from John Gould’s A Monograph of the Macropodidae, or Family of Kangaroos (1841–1842), made after his journey to Australia. Every print is a facsimile giclée at the size of the original sheet, about 15 × 22 in, limited to 250.
30 prints
Bennett’s Wallaby
$185
Black Wallaby
$185
Agile Wallaby
$185
Banded Jerboa Kangaroo
$185
Black-gloved Wallaby
$185
Black-striped Wallaby
$185
Bridled Kangaroo
$185
Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby
$185
Derby’s Wallaby
$185
Gilbert’s Rat Kangaroo
$185
Great Grey Kangaroo
$185
Great Red Kangaroo
$185
Great Rock Wallaby
$185
Grizzled Tree-Kangaroo
$185
Hare Kangaroo
$185
Jerboa Kangaroo
$185
Nail-tailed Kangaroo
$185
Pademelon Wallaby
$185
Parry’s Wallaby
$185
Red Wallaroo
$185
Rufous Jerboa-Kangaroo
$185
Rufous-necked Wallaby
$185
Short-eared Rock Wallaby
$185
Sooty Kangaroo
$185
Spectacled Hare Kangaroo
$185
Striped-sided Rock Wallaby
$185
Tasmanian Jerboa Kangaroo
$185
Tasmanian Wallaby
$185
Unadorned Rock Wallaby
$185
Ursine Tree-Kangaroo
$185
About kangaroo prints
John Gould went to Australia in 1838 with his wife Elizabeth to collect birds. Surrounded there by animals ‘as strange as if I had been transported to another planet’, he decided to study the mammals too, and his monograph of the kangaroos is the one book in our collection in which he left the birds behind. The animals were drawn in Australia and the plates finished in London.
The thirty plates of Kangaroos run from the Great Grey and the Great Red Kangaroo to the rock wallabies, the hare kangaroos and the small rat-kangaroos and jerboa kangaroos. Two tree-kangaroos, the Grizzled and the Ursine, show the branch of the family that climbs. The sheets match those of Gould’s bird books, so a kangaroo can hang beside a plate from The Birds of Australia, the book that came out of the same journey. Who was John Gould? tells the rest of his story.