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Series 2: Original watercolour drawings for the publication A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volum...

Series 2: Original watercolour drawings for the publication A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volum...

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Series 2: Original watercolour drawings for the publication A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 2: Passerines, 1974 / by Peter Slater

About this item

Full title

Series 2: Original watercolour drawings for the publication A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 2: Passerines, 1974 / by Peter Slater

Date

1974

Call Numbers

PXD 1506/Boxes 09-12

Record Identifier

YRlBgPmn

Reference Code

9640756
Physical Description

Contents

36 drawings - 36 x 32 cm - watercolour

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Series

Arrangement

Listing of watercolours has been arranged in the order of plates in A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 2: Passerines, 1974. Plates have been housed according to size.

Access and use

Copying Conditions

In copyright

Copyright holder : Peter Slater

Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Peter Slater

More information

Scope and Contents

Contents

36 watercolour plates on board of Australian Birds. Each plate is annotated with plate number and its corresponding page number in the publication, A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 2: Passerines. There are also pencil notes and bird names.

1. Pittas Scrub-Birds and Bristle-Birds, plate 1, PXD 1506/Box 9/no. 1
2. Lyrebirds, plate...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Series 2: Original watercolour drawings for the publication A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 2: Passerines, 1974 / by Peter Slater

Notes

General note

Plates 3, 9, and 17 not received with collection.

Description source

Titles for contents list supplied by creator from publication A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 2: Passerines, 1974.

Published information

A field guide to Australian birds : passerines / Peter Slater. Adelaide : Rigby, 1974. (Mitchell Library call no. 598.29901/46)

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

PXD 1506/Boxes 09-12

Record Identifier

YRlBgPmn

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Other Identifiers

Reference code

9640756

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