George Stubbs · 1772
The Kongouro from New Holland (Kangaroo)
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A pale kangaroo sitting up on a rock and looking off to the right against stormy clouds and a distant blue mountain: Stubbs's 1772 portrait of the animal Joseph Banks brought back from Cook's first voyage. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Up to 28.6 × 24 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Kongouro from New Holland (Kangaroo)
Joseph Banks commissioned the painting after Cook's first voyage, and Stubbs worked from the inflated skin of an animal Banks had collected on the east coast of Australia in 1770, and apparently from Sydney Parkinson's drawing of a kangaroo. It is the first painting of an Australian animal in Western art, and with the dingo portrait Portrait of a Large Dog it is one of only two Stubbs paintings not drawn from a live subject. It was first shown with the dingo at the Society of Artists in London in 1773.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
George Stubbs
George Stubbs was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting animals, perhaps influenced by his love and study of anatomy. His series of paintings on the theme of a lion attacking a horse are early and significant examples of the Romantic movement that emerged in the late 18th century. He enjoyed royal patronage. His painting Whistlejacket hangs in the National Gallery, London.
All George Stubbs prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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