#ThylacineThursday:
'The Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus Cynocephalus)” - hand-coloured lithographic plate
Plate XII in Gerard Krefft’s The Mammals of Australia (1871), illustrated by sisters Helena & Harriet Scott; this one by Harriet.
National Library of Australia collection: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-33627803
#WomenArtists #NaturalHistoryArt #SciArt #AustralianAnimals #Thylacine

One more to cover both #WombatWednesday and #ThylacineThursday: "Tiger-Wolf and Wombat" [Thylacine and Wombat], plate XXIV in _Bilderwerke fur den Anschauungsunterricht - Band VI (Wilde Thiere aller Zoner)_, 1882. (Originally appeared in _The Instructive Picture Book_, 1860)
Trove/National Library of Australia: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-146235861/view

Favorite Thylacine fact for #thylacinethursday: one study cited on Wikipedia says thylacines may only gone extinct in a window extending from the 1980s to the present day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine