TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby collection of natural history watercolours, 1790s / compiled by Aylmer Bou...
TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby collection of natural history watercolours, 1790s / compiled by Aylmer Bourke Lambert ; acquired by the 13th Earl of Derby
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745 drawings - watercolour
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Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Six albums comprising 745 watercolours (one landscape, 10 of quadrupeds, 326 of birds, 32 of fish and 376 of plants), including works by and after Thomas Watling, the Port Jackson Painter, The Sydney Bird Painter, and others, the majority dating to the first decade following settlement.
SERIES 01 (Volumes 01-03)
New South Wales drawings...
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TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby collection of natural history watercolours, 1790s / compiled by Aylmer Bourke Lambert ; acquired by the 13th Earl of Derby
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The Derby Collection, 1790s
The Lambert Collection, 1790s
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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]
Correction: Christie's catalogue records John Latham's autograph letter signed to Aylmer Bourke Lambert, [Romsey] 26 January 1800...
Object History
These six albums were purchased from the Lambert sale by Lord Derby, specifically from Lambert’s ‘Valuable Botanical Library’ sold over 3 days, 18-20 April 1842. The albums remained in the Derby library at Knowsley Hall until 2011.
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Purchased with the generous support of TAL and Dai-ichi Life and the State Government of New South Wales in June 2011
Administrative / Biographical history
Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842) was Vice President of the Linnaean Society of London for nearly 50 years. He was a friend and correspondent of Sir Joseph Banks, and took a great interest in the botanical and zoological discoveries emerging from New Holland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, as they were transmitted back to London, whether...
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YK5QWJjn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5QWJjn
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940934
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