Collection 27: Drawings of birds chiefly from Australia, 1791-1792
Collection 27: Drawings of birds chiefly from Australia, 1791-1792
About this item
Full title
Date
1791-1792
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 226
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Watercolours
Physical Description
Contents
100 watercolours - various sizes
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955.
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Physical Access Conditions
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
"Drawings of Birds chiefly from Australia, A Collection / of 101 BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED DRAWINGS with description, / in pencil mounted in a vol. and bound in hf. morocco / imp.fol" -- printed clipping pasted onto reverse of front endpaper.
The sketches are titled, most with added notes giving the month bird was sighted and its size. Two drawi...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Collection 27: Drawings of birds chiefly from Australia, 1791-1792
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
foliated in M.L. / 1972
Digital order no:Album ID : 824183
Signature / Inscriptions
[p.i]
"A / 9.A" in ink at upper left
"M / Aust" in pencil at upper middle
"S & A / ?ool" in pencil at upper right
"M - d 48" in ink, on reverse of drawing no. 101 at lower edge
"M - d 48" in ink, on reverse of back endpaper at lower edge
Attributions / Conjectures
The watercolours are unsigned. They were previously attributed to Thomas Watling, but it is probable that they are the work of a number of artists (see Hindwood, K. A. - The "Sydney" bird paintings in The Australian Zoologist, 10 August, 1965, v.XIII, part 2, pp.83-92. ML ref. Q590.5/A). The drawings are also discussed by Hindwood in Historical ass...
Conservation note
Rebound, March 2004
Description source
Drawings of birds chiefly from Australia title on spine
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased by the Public Library of New South Wales, 2 November 1887
Transferred from Public Library collection, August 1929
Transferred from Manuscript collection, D 226, March 1972
Exhibited in
- A Rage for Curiosity
- In the garden
- Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection
- Artist colony: drawing Sydney’s nature
State Library of New South Wales (1 September, 1997 - 11 January, 1998). Applies to: ff.53,84
Parramatta Heritage Centre. Applies to: f.53
State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: ff.48,53,71,75
State Library of New South Wales
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 226
Record Identifier
Yold0yA9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yold0yA9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
440247
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