The Mammals of Australia

In his introduction, Gould says: It was not until I arrived in the country, and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet, that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna.

[citation needed] The large lithographs reproduced the artwork of Richter, after the drawings and watercolours made in Australia by Gould and his wife, Elizabeth.

[5] Among the best known of the illustrations from the work are the two of Thylacinus cynocephalus (Tasmanian tiger), copied since its publication and the most frequently reproduced,[4] made more recognizable by Cascade Brewery's appropriation for its label in 1987.

[3] The government of Tasmania published a monochromatic reproduction of the same image in 1934,[6] the author Louisa Anne Meredith also copied it for Tasmanian Friends and Foes (1881).

The curator of the Australian Museum, Gerard Krefft, produced the more affordable The Mammals of Australia (1871);[9] intended for educational purposes and influenced by Gould's illustrations.

Gracius Broinowski's abandoned work, Birds and Mammals of Australia (1884), so closely imitated the plates that an injunction was threatened by its publisher.