Greeting Card - Kangaroo (Cook's first encounter)

Greeting Card - Kangaroo (Cook's first encounter)

This engraving, titled 'A singular animal called kanguroo (sic) found on the coast of New Holland', is after a painting by George Stubbs. It was the first printed image published of the kangaroo and accompanied the journals of Captain James Cook's first voyage on HMB Endeavour.

Dimensions: 12.5 × 19 cm
Printed on heavyweight stock
Envelope: The card is packaged with a brown envelope
Inside: Uncoated blank interior provides a superior writing surface

Exclusive to the Australian National Maritime Museum