'Watling' collection in the Zoology Library, Natural History Museum, ca. 1788-1794 / Thomas Watling...
'Watling' collection in the Zoology Library, Natural History Museum, ca. 1788-1794 / Thomas Watling and Port Jackson Painter, microfilmed in 1967
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca 1788-1794
Call Numbers
MAV/FM4/3151 Status: No longer available
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
1 microfilm reel of graphic materials - 35 mm - negative
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Copy print : PXB 49
Copy print : PXB 50
Finding aids
Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 263 -
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
The original collection contains 512 drawings in a folio volume, and includes charts, landscapes, studies of Australian aborigines, botanical and zoological studies (295 drawings are of birds).
In the 1980s, the original volume was disbound and discarded.
Alternative Titles
Full title
'Watling' collection in the Zoology Library, Natural History Museum, ca. 1788-1794 / Thomas Watling and Port Jackson Painter, microfilmed in 1967
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
PXB 49:
Includes 75 photographs of landscapes and aboriginal studies
PXB 50:
Includes photographs of bird drawings (nos. 105-295], numbered in vol. 1-295.
FM5/610-649 are colour transparencies of some bird drawings and FM5/1226-1313 are colour transparencies of drawings nos 1-88.
For information about collection, attribut...
Description source
Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MAV/FM4/3151 Status: No longer available
Record Identifier
nZNvD6Qn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNvD6Qn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
862964
How to access this item
For use in the Library
Enquire with staff in the reading room or enquire online using Ask a Librarian.
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