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Kangaroos

Common name for some marsupials indigenous to Australia in the family Macropodidae

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Kangaroos

10 images from works
  • A kangaroo walking and jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A young marsupial. Coloured etching.
  • A kangaroo jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A group of Red kangaroos on the move. Colour reproduction of a painting by W Kuhnert.
  • A kangaroo. Etching.
  • A kangaroo jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A family of kangaroos relaxing on a grassy bank with koalas and other marsupials nearby. Coloured etching.
  • Australian grass trees (Xanthorrhoea species) with red kangaroos (Macropus laniger) at Yankalilla. Coloured lithograph by J. W. Giles, c. 1846, after G. F. Angas.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription for a kangaroo; representing Chamberlain's advocacy of the Commonwealth of Australia. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1900.
  • Australia: above, a kangaroo; below, a common ringtail possum. Etching by C. Grignion, ca. 1788.

Works from the collections

11 works

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    A kangaroo. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

    Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?] | Reference: 751399i
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    A kangaroo walking and jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2015323i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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    A group of Red kangaroos on the move. Colour reproduction of a painting by W Kuhnert.

    Kuhnert, Wilhelm, 1865-1926. | Reference: 39893i
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    A kangaroo. Etching.

    | Reference: 39887i
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    A kangaroo jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2015324i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements

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