The earliest printed illustration of a Kangaroo, from 'An Account of the Voyages'

This illustration of a kangaroo is printed in 'An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty, for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq.'

The engraving is based on a painting by George Stubbs. The original painting was based on an inflated skin of a kangaroo collected by the crew of the Endeavour in 1770, and not a live subject. It is believed that Stubbs' painting was also based on a drawing by Sydney Parkinson's drawing of a kangaroo from that same voyage.

The kangaroo was described by Cook as "[...] of a light mouse Colour and the full size of a Grey Hound, and shaped in every respect like one, with a long tail, which it carried like a Grey hound; in short, I should have taken it for a wild dog but for its walking or running, in which it jump'd like a Hare or Deer." (24 June 1770)