Album of 31 original watercolours of Australian fauna, ca.1790 / Sarah Stone
Album of 31 original watercolours of Australian fauna, ca.1790 / Sarah Stone
Album of 31 original watercolours of Australian fauna, ca.1790 / Sarah Stone
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1790
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXA 909
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
31 watercolours - Sheet sizes measure 33.8 x 25.1 cm; drawings are within frame lines approx. 23 x 17 cm (roughly equivalent to plate size of engravings) - on 31 sheets.
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Level of description
Fonds
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Access Conditions
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Drawings in a bound volume are titled from those given in "Journal of a voyage to New South Wales"
1. Anomalous Hornbill : Signed l.c. Sarah Smith
Now known as a Channel-billed Cuckoo
See White: pl.5 p.142
2. Cyprinaceous Labrus [and] Hippocampus
Now known as Wrasse or Parrot-fish and Sea horse
See White: pl.50 p.264
3. K...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Album of 31 original watercolours of Australian fauna, ca.1790 / Sarah Stone
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
30 of the sheets (not no. 22) are heavily sized. Each drawing is surrounded by a thin wash frame line. Tipped, with interleaving, probably in the late-1980s, into early nineteenth-century full calf boards, with elaborate gilt tooling....
Signature / Inscriptions
No. 1 is signed l.c. Sarah Smith
No. 3 is signed l.c. Sarah Smith
No. 4 is signed l.l. outside frame line S. Smith
Willcox collector's label is pasted onto inside front-endpaper.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased with assistance from the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, October 2000
Administrative / Biographical history
In the mid-1980s this collection of drawings - originally numbering forty-six - were offered at a New England (USA) auction. Fifteen drawings from the sale were later acquired by the National Library of Australia (these can be seen on their image database: www.nla.gov.au), while Peter Willcox acqu...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXA 909
Record Identifier
Yj7dXpG9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7dXpG9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
411811
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