The folio · 500 copies

Seven plates and their sources

Each plate is printed at 420 × 297 mm on 300 g cotton paper. In its margin: who saw what, and when. A 48-page booklet holds every account and picture in full.

Order for €58 The seven plates
Plate III as printed: a London chamber about 1638, the keeper kneeling with a pebble on his palm, two visitors watching, and the dodo, now coloured from three witnesses.
Plate III · The chamber, London, c. 1638From: L'Estrange c.1638 · Herbert 1634 · Van Warwijck's crew 1598

01/The platesI–VII

What each plate shows

The details below are cut from the plates. Every one lists what it was drawn from.

  1. Plate I

    The island, before 1598

    Dry coastal forest at Grand Port: tambalacoque with fruit on its trunk, pandanus, fan palms, a giant tortoise, a broad-billed parrot and two dodos, left uncoloured.

    Drawn from

    • Habitat studies at Mare aux Songes
    • Van Warwijck's crew, 1598
    • Subfossil size: 62.6–75 cm

  2. Plate II

    Warwick Bay, 1598

    Van Warwijck's ships at anchor, the longboat coming in, a water cask on the beach, and a dodo at the forest edge watching.

    Drawn from

    • Van Warwijck's crew, 1598
    • Second Dutch Expedition, 1598–1600

  3. Plate III

    The chamber, London, c. 1638

    The keeper by the chimney with a pebble on his palm, the heap of pebbles, two visitors, and the bird coloured from three witnesses.

    Drawn from

    • Hamon L'Estrange, c. 1638
    • Thomas Herbert, 1634
    • Van Warwijck's crew, 1598

  4. Plate IV

    Two painters, 1625–1626

    Savery in Utrecht painting a fat bird from a stuffed one; Ustad Mansur at Jahangir's court painting a slim living bird.

    Drawn from

    • Roelant Savery, 1626
    • Ustad Mansur, c. 1625

  5. Plate V

    Amber Island, 1662

    A shipwrecked sailor holding one bird by the leg as the others run to it; the wreck of the Arnhem on the reef.

    Drawn from

    • Volkert Evertsz, 1662

  6. Plate VI

    Mare aux Songes, 1865

    Two men feeling for bones with their feet, George Clark on the bank, the day's bones on a cloth.

    Drawn from

    • George Clark, 1866
    • Excavation, 2005

  7. Plate VII

    What is left, Oxford

    A museum drawer with the dried head and foot, a lead pellet and the 1656 inventory.

    Drawn from

    • Tradescant collection, 1656
    • Strickland and Melville, 1848
    • Scans, 2018

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