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Awarded premium, the bird is copied from one which Captain Cook brought back from his last voyage

Page 659 from Volume 2 of 'Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries' (Great Exhibition 1851)

Page 1106c from Volume 3 of 'Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries' (Great Exhibition 1851)

Won prize of £30 under section 1, Architectural Decoration, prize offered by Messrs. Bagues Limited

Won prize of £30 under section 1, Architectural Decoration, prize offered by Messrs. Bagues Limited

Won prize of £30 under section 1, Architectural Decoration, prize offered by Messrs. Bagues Limited

Awarded the gold medal

Commissioned by the Australian Government in 1937, stands on a monolith in front of the Parliament Buildings in Canberra. Received the Albert Medal in 1913 'for nine years Presidency and now Patron of the Society, in respectful recognition of His Majesty's untiring efforts to make himself personally acquainted with the social and economic condition of the various parts of his Dominions and to promote the progress of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in the United Kingdom and throughout the British Empire'

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