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XVII. Notice of an Original Painting, including a Figure of the Dodo, in the Collection of 

 His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at Sion House. By W. J. Broderip, 

 Esq., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., gfc. 



Read April 12, 1853. 



Professor OWEN, at whose disposal the Duke of Northumberland placed the 



following additional pictorial evidence of the existence of the Dodo in the seventeenth 



century, has requested me to draw the attention of this Society to the highly interesting 



picture which the Duke has been so good as to send for the inspection of the Fellows. 



The size of the picture, which is in the finest preservation, is thirty-two inches by nineteen. 



It is executed in oil, and bears the following monogram and date. 



Mr. William Russell, with his usual discernment, detected in this 



monogram the signatures of Jean Goeimare and Jean David de 



Heem, and proved the correctness of his judgment by a reference 



to Bruliiot'. Jean Goiemare, who is not noticed by Descamps, 



Bryan, Sandrart, or Houbraken, is described by Bruliiot as a Flemish artist who flourished 





' Diet, des Monogrammes, 1 partie, pp. 201, 274. 



