Wah-hah and the lemon-yellow crest

Sydney : Ant Press, 1988. Elephant folio, original cloth boards with colour etching inlaid to front panel, slipcase, colophon, pp. [30], bound French-fold, each page being a very large full page etching with hand colouring. Edition limited to 10 copies each containing 29 etchings.

‘This book was written with a love for the natural environment and I hope that those who read it, will come to appreciate the natural environment and its many inhabitants much more and be shocked that we are losing it to human thoughtlessness and greed’ – artist’s statement.

An exquisite work by Monica Oppen.

Another example was exhibited in ‘Birds!’ at the National Library of Australia in 1999. Three copies are held in Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; Monash University)