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"Mimosa"
Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 30.6 x 19.3
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 461

 
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Detail of a branch from a flowering tree or shrub against a plain background. The stem is slender and brown, with elongated elliptic leaves which are pale green in colour overlaid with short brown or grey lines, and three black longitudinal veins. Three flower spikes are columnar in shape and composed of a yellow wash overlaid with bright yellow dots, while another two have round blossoms clustered along a stem with buds at the base. The drawing is annotated in brown ink.

 
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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "396", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
  • The drawing is annotated in brown ink at centre "Natural size", at bottom "This Tree grows to the heigth of 20 or 30 feet", and at bottom right "Mimosa".
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • A separate label, cut from the pre-1984 mount, is attached to the mount alongside the drawing at lower right. It is inscribed in pencil "Corner inside".
  • 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) Zoology Library and Picture Library: Picture Library reference number 12461
  • James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
  • Data sheet available