Item 05: [Little saw shark, Pristiophorus cirratus, between 1788 and 1797 / attributed to the Port J...
Item 05: [Little saw shark, Pristiophorus cirratus, between 1788 and 1797 / attributed to the Port J...
Item 05: [Little saw shark, Pristiophorus cirratus, between 1788 and 1797 / attributed to the Port Jackson Painter]
About this item
Full title
Date
between 1788 and 1797
Call Numbers
V*/Fish/1
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
Drawings - 35 x 51 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
Two drawings of a saw-shark (Pristiophorus cirratus), showing the upperside and underside of the shark
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 05: [Little saw shark, Pristiophorus cirratus, 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:a928142
Signature / Inscriptions
Inscribed in ink below image, "Reduced by scale to half the size of Nature"
Inscribed in pencil in a non-contemporaneous hand below image, "Little saw shark, (Pristiophorus cirratus)"
Watermarked paper (undated), "J. Whatman"
Attributions / Conjectures
Formerly attributed to J.W. Lewin based on pencil inscription from Library Bindery Officer's hand, "No.1 / Original Water Colour / by J.W. Lewin" 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 showin...
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Miss Helen Lacy Banning, 1913
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
V*/Fish/1
Record Identifier
9gkdOQD9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkdOQD9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
446144
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