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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. Broperip, 
Esq., F.R.S., V.P.Z.8., &c. 
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 Gg Bt ee 
monogram the signatures of Jean Goeimare and Jean David de 
Heem, and proved the correctness of his judgment by a reference —/ 6 27 
to Brulliot?. Jean Goiemare, who is not noticed by Descamps, 
Bryan, Sandrart, or Houbraken, is described by Brulliot as a Flemish artist who flourished 
! Dict. des Monogrammes, 1 partie, pp. 201, 274. 
