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Print (Postcard) Reproduction of watercolour by C.A. Marlborough, 1847, of the Tradescant Collection stuffed Dodo at the Ashmolean. Printed by Henry Stone & Son, Ltd. Banbury, 20th Century

Inventory Number 13707


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.13707

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Object
Primary inscriptions
WAC. 115 The Dodo Watercolour by C.A. Marlborough, 1847 One of the best-known exhibits in the original Tradescant Collection was the stuffed Dodo, or "Dodar, from the Island of Mauritius". Now of course extinct, this was the bird which inspired the character in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
Object type
Print
Dimensions
Height: 150mm Width: 105mm
Inventory No
13707