Volume 06: Drawings of plants from New South Wales
Volume 06: Drawings of plants from New South Wales
About this item
Full title
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 1098/vol. 6
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (117 drawings) - drawings 37.6 x 24 cm and smaller., album 38 x 24.5 cm - watercolour
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Arrangement
Bound in chronological order by month January-December, one sheet for October bound after December.
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955<br><br>
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales<br>
Issue Copy
Digitised
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
1 Hort: Lee. Hammersmith. / 1798 [on verso]
Epigaea repens
watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
2 [Woody Pear]
[No inscription]
Plant, “a Banksia” (Watling 430/365)
Attributed to Thomas Watling by sale catalogue
watercolour on paper
[blank pages]
watermarked ‘Fleur-de-Lis’
3 Magnified / Natu...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Volume 06: Drawings of plants from New South Wales
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 961233
Signature / Inscriptions
13th Earl of Derby’s bookplate on front pastedown. “J WHATMAN / 1794” watermarked on blank recto of the 2nd page
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
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 1098/vol. 6
Record Identifier
1bGdEo8Y
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGdEo8Y
Other Identifiers
Reference code
940942
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