- Thomas Watling]
- The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "19", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
- The drawing is inscribed in black ink at bottom with the title "Taken from the West side of Sydney Cove", followed in brown ink and what appears to be a different hand "behind the Hospital".
- The drawing is signed in brown ink at lower right "Thomas Watling, delt.-", but is undated.
- Wheeler and Smith (1988) suggest that this drawing may have been used as the basis for the oil painting entitled "A Direct North General View of Sydney Cove 1794", in the Dixson Gallery, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, which is attributed to Watling.
- 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 12506
- 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 135, p. 130.)
- McCormick, Tim. First Views of Australia: A History of Early Sydney. David Ell Press in association with Longueville Publications, Chippendale, 1987. (Plate 30, p. 64.)
- Dixson, W. 'Some Early Picture of Sydney', The Royal Australian Historical Society Journal and Proceedings Vol. 19, 1923, pp. 198-204.
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