Collection 22: Natural history illustrations of Australian flora & fauna, some dated 1797 / compiled...
Collection 22: Natural history illustrations of Australian flora & fauna, some dated 1797 / compiled by Richard Pulteney
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca.1797 (collection is dated by dated drawings within it)
Call Numbers
PXA 678
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
15 drawings - approx. 28 x 20 cm
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Arrangement
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Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Physical Access Conditions
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
ITEM 01:
A wild Dog or Dingo of N.S. Wales, 1797
PXA 678 / 1
ITEM 02:
Wervia [potoroo], 1797
PXA 678 / 2
ITEM 03:
Dabbii [sugar glider], 1797
PXA 678 / 3
ITEM 04:
A Banksia, ca.1797
PXA 678 / 4
ITEM 05:
A Banksia, ca.1797
PXA 678 / 5
ITEM 06:
A kind of Creeper, c...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Collection 22: Natural history illustrations of Australian flora & fauna, some dated 1797 / compiled by Richard Pulteney
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 823805...
Signature / Inscriptions
Most of the drawings are titled, some have field descriptions and 4 are dated
Conservation note
All the drawings have one perforated margin caused by their being previously bound into a book
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased December 1995
Administrative / Biographical history
These drawings were owned by Richard Pulteney (1730-1801), a well-known English botanist, who appears to have had them bound into his copy of Sir James Smith's "A specimen of the Botany of New Holland". The drawings and book were purchased by Tim McCormick at a Sotheby's London book sale 1 June 1981 (lot 253A); from there they passed into the Longu...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 678
Record Identifier
9BvMjp39
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9BvMjp39
Other Identifiers
Reference code
100948
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