The Kongouro from New Holland

The UK government has stepped in to place an export bar on two paintings by 18th-century artist George Stubbs.

One of the paintings depicts a dingo, and the other a kangaroo. They are credited with being the first introduction the British people had to these animals.

Stubbs had seen neither a dingo nor a kangaroo in the flesh. He worked from the spoken accounts of those who had, as well as a preserved kangaroo skin which he inflated.

Considering what he was working from, I think the kanga is remarkable.



More on story here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21344589

I thought so, too!

Quite good on the kangaroo, for a bloke who'd never seen one alive, and better than a few early kangaroo paintings I've seen.

Didn't do so well on the dingo, unless they've changed a lot in 220 years.

What happens if some furriner offers more than £5.5 million?

Yeah, well, keep 'em then. The dingo don't look like a dingo and the kangaroo looks like a jacked up mouse.

I hope somebody 'fixes' both of 'em.

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ha!

Outstanding

( the kangaroo looks like a jacked up mouse. )

That's what Sylvester always though kangaroos were.

Now thtand thtill. Thtop jumpun around!!

I'd forgotten about Sylvester and the kangaroo.

:D

I can't find the Kogouro

It's over behind that box of sickle bar blades in the corner.

Ha! if it had been a snake it would have bit me.

footfootfoot;852416 wrote:

Ha! if it had been a snake it would have bit me.

A phrase I use often.

It's always in the last place ya look.

footfootfoot;852347 wrote:

I can't find the Kogouro

Well, they have a 37 inch hopper. That do?

Wallaby?

I'd like a 37 inch hopper

37 inch hopper?

I have a midget that ate some jumping beans, will that do?