The Port Jackson Painter collection

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Un-named bird

Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1798]
Dimensions: 20.8 x 31.8 cm
Reference: Port Jackson Drawing - no. 32

 

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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • The drawing is inscribed in brown ink at the bottom left corner with the number "63" on its side, and on the reverse "63". These refer to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Port Jackson Collection.
  • The drawing is window mounted in cream paper.
  • The bird was identified by Mathews and Iredale (1920) as the Red Wattle-brid Coleia carunculata, known known as Anthochaera carunculata.
  • The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
  • By permission of the trustees of the Natural History Museum (London).
  • Two sets of transparencies held in the Natural History Museum (London) General Library and Picture Library: Picture Library order number 12632
  • Sir Joseph Banks bequest 1827
  • Data sheet available.
  • Mathews, G. and Iredale, T. 'Forgotten Bird-Artists and an Old-time Ornithologist', The Austral Avian Record, Vol. 4, 1920 pp.114-22.