Artist John Lewin
Description
This image is a digital reproduction of a painting by John Lewin of a Platypus in 1808. Details at the library include those on the canvas."[Platypus], 1810 / by J.W. Lewin .(John William Lewin), 1770-1819). 1808. 1 watercolour & gouache drawing - 43.8 x 54.3 cm. Inscriptions : Signed & dated at lower right "I. W. Lewin New South Wales / 1810" Notes: Donor acknowledgment cited on frame. Source : Bequeathed by Miss Helen Banning. Notes : Reproduced, by the Library, as a large colour print (Ref. U 46, copy filed at PXD 141), and postcard (Ref. PC 32, copy filed at PXB 188).
Date 1808
Source/Photographer From a collection at State Library of NSW's Pictures and Manuscripts. Digital order no. : a928146
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Platypus_by_Lewin.jpg

The platypus or duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It is one of the extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth.