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"New South Wales, Port Jackson from the entrance up to Sydney Cove, taken in October 1788"
Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [1788?]
Dimensions: 53 x 71.5 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. LS2

 
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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is inscribed in pencil at top right with the number "2", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
  • The drawing is inscribed with the title, in black ink at lower left, "New South Wales PORT JACKSON from the Entrance up to Sydney Cove taken in Oct.br 1788 Latitude, 33[degrees]~50 South Longitude 151~25 East". To the right there is a scale drawn in black ink and wash and labelled "Scale of One English Mile" (1 mile = 8.9 cm.). Soundings and place names are also marked (details in contents note below).
  • One of the ships depicted in Sydney Cove is labelled "Golden Grove". The "Golden Grove" was one of the storeships of the First Fleet, and left Port Jackson on 30th September 1788 to convey a group of convicts and officers to settle Norfolk Island (this is described by David Collins on p.39 of his Account of the English Colony of New South Wales, 2nd edition, published London 1804).
  • The drawing is annotated on the reverse in brown ink, along the upper right edge, "A Plan of Port Jackson Botany Bay".
  • T. M. Perry (Wheeler and Smith, 1988, p.77) suggests that the area around Sydney Cove on this sketch shares some similarities with a "Sketch and Description of the Settlement at Sydney Cove ... taken by a transported Convict on 16th April 1788", which was published in London by R. Cribb in July 1797 and is initialled "FF". It has been attributed to the First Fleet convict Francis Fowkes.
  • 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 12502
  • James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
  • Data sheet available
  • Wheeler, A. and Smith, B, (eds.) The Art of the First Fleet and other early Australian Drawings. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. (Plate 71, p. 76.)