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Cockatoos

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  • A cockatoo flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A cockatoo flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • A cockatoo flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
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Catalogue

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    A cockatoo flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2015358i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A cockatoo flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2015359i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A cockatoo flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2015357i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
    • Pictures

    An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.

    Wright, Joseph, 1734-1797. | Date: 1769 | Reference: 575780i
    • Books

    Who cares about animals? / Labour.

    Labour Party (Great Britain) | Date: 1992
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