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===Early European depictions=== [[File:The Kongouro from New Holland (Kangaroo) NMM ZBA5754 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[George Stubbs]], ''[[The Kongouro from New Holland]]'', 1772]] The first artistic representations of the Australia scene by European artists were mainly [[natural history]] illustrations, depicting the distinctive flora and fauna of the land for scientific purposes, and the topography of the coast. [[Sydney Parkinson]], the [[botanical illustrator]] on [[James Cook]]'s 1770 voyage that first charted the eastern coastline of Australia, made a large number of such drawings under the direction of naturalist [[Joseph Banks]]. Many of these drawings were met with scepticism when taken back to Europe, for example claims that the [[platypus]] was a hoax. In the form of copies and reproductions, [[George Stubbs]]' 1772 paintings ''[[Portrait of a Large Dog]]'' and ''[[The Kongouro from New Holland]]''—depicting a dingo and kangaroo respectively—were the first images of Australian fauna to be widely disseminated in Britain.
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