Volume 05: Drawings of plants of New South Wales
Volume 05: Drawings of plants of New South Wales
About this item
Full title
Date
1790s
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 1098/vol. 5
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Watercolours
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (approximately 259 drawings) - drawings 31.1 x 19.5 cm and smaller., album 33 x 21.4 cm - watercolour
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Issue Copy
Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1 This Plant grows in moist place to the height of 3 feet February
Philydrum lanuginosum
watercolour on paper watermarked 'Fleur de Lis / 1794'
2 Natural Size / This plant grows about eight or ten feet in Height in sandy soil / December
watercolour on paper
3 This Shrub when its berries are ripened are eaten by the Natives....
Alternative Titles
Full title
Volume 05: Drawings of plants of New South Wales
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Contributing Creator
In a very few cases the artist is identified, being either Colonel William Paterson (Coll: Paterson) or Thomas Watling (T.W.). Items listed “watercolour on paper watermarked ?” indicates that the watermark is not visible.
Notes
General note
For another variant of p. 172, the Cumberland Tree, see the watercolour bound with John Doody’s Flora of Norfolk Island, DL PXX 1 f.39.
For copies of some of the same subjects, dating to c.1797, see the Richard Pulteney collection natural history illustrations of Australian flora & fauna, PXA 678....
Signature / Inscriptions
13th Earl of Derby’s bookplate on front pastedown
Attributions / Conjectures
Numerous subjects here are variants of drawings by Watling and the Port Jackson Painter (and are possibly by the same hands) in the Watling and Banks Ms34 collections: for example:
p.19 Native name Givee en - Watling 467 (“Flowering shrub, ‘native name Givee en’”)
p.20 - Watling 456
p.23 - Watling 425
p.24 - Watling 426
p.25 - Watli...
Conservation note
Album is contemporary calf gilt, rebacked with 19th century speckled calf gilt in compartments with green morocco lettering piece titled ‘DRAWINGS OF PLANTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES’
Alphanumeric designations
The watercolours are listed in numerical order as they appear in the album.
Description source
New South Wales drawings : the property of the Earl of Derby : important early Australian watercolours from the library of the 13th Earl of Derby at Knowsley [catalogue] / Christie's. [London : Christie's, 2011]
Titles of the majority of the subjects are as follows: current common name where identified; according to the English and Latin inscriptions on the watercolours; from the titles given to the matching Watling Collection subjects in the Natural History Museum, London (First Fleet Artwork Collection). The first number in brackets refers to the old Wat...
Object History
Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842); sale, S. Leigh Sotheby, 26 Lower Grosvenor Street (the residence of the late Mr Lambert), London, 18-20 April, 1842 (Catalogue of the valuable botanical library of the late A.B. Lambert, F.R.S., F.S.A., &c, of Boyton House, Wiltshire), lot 443 (‘New South Wales:— Upwards of 370 beautifully executed Drawings, in Co...
Contextual Information
Exhibited in
- Artist colony: drawing Sydney’s nature
State Library of New South Wales
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 1098/vol. 5
Record Identifier
1JkmWJqY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1JkmWJqY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
940938
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