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"New-Holland Penguin", native name "Gur-roo-mul"
Artist: Watling, Thomas
Created: [between 1792 and 1797]
Dimensions: 22.3 x 19.7 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 356

 
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  • Thomas Watling]
  • The drawing is annotated in ink at bottom "Native name Gur-roo-mul. one fifth of the natural size, the only one yet seen in Port Jackson".
  • The drawing is signed in pale brown ink "T. Watling, delt. -", but is undated.
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at right with the number "291". This refers to the catalogue list compiled by John Latham c. 1801 which was acquired with the drawings, and is filed with them at the end of the Watling Drawings series.
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "New Holland Penguin Lath MS". This has been copied in ink at bottom, "New Holland Penguin Latham MS". (Latham MS refers to the catalogue list compiled by John Latham c. 1801 - see not above).
  • This bird was more recently identified as the Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
  • A separate label is attached to the mount below the drawing. It is inscribed in pencil "Type".
  • 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 12356
  • James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
  • Data sheet available.
  • Hindwood K. A. 'The "Watling" drawings with incidental notes on the "Lambert" and the "Latham" drawings', Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for the years 1968-69 (1970).