Item 06: [Elephant fish (Callorhinchus milii), between 1788 and 1797 / attributed to the Port Jackso...
Item 06: [Elephant fish (Callorhinchus milii), between 1788 and 1797 / attributed to the Port Jackso...
Item 06: [Elephant fish (Callorhinchus milii), between 1788 and 1797 / attributed to the Port Jackson Painter]
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1800-1819
Call Numbers
V*/Fish/2
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
Drawings - 30.1 x 45.5 cm. - 1 watercolour drawing
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
An elephant fish with a proboscis-like projection of the snout.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 06: [Elephant fish (Callorhinchus milii), between 1788 and 1797 / attributed to the Port Jackson Painter]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
The work is not signed or dated.
Digital order no:a928143
Signature / Inscriptions
Inscribed in ink below image, "Reduced to 1/2 the size of nature. This Fish when first caught was of a very bright silver colour. / The Fish has a false belly and Viviparous"
Inscribed in pencil in a non-contemporaneous hand below image, "Elephant fish (Callorhynchus Antarcticus)"
Watermarked paper (undated), "J. Whatman"
Attributions / Conjectures
Formerly attributed to J.W. Lewin based on pencil inscription from Library Bindery Officer's hand, "Original Watercolour / by J.W. Lewin / No.2" when removed from Rotunda in 1933. (The Rotunda was a former housing system used by the Mitchell Library). The style and composition does not appear to be the work of J.W. Lewin.
The drawing is a st...
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Miss Helen Banning, 1913
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
V*/Fish/2
Record Identifier
9NaAdw5Y
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaAdw5Y
Other Identifiers
Reference code
446145
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