First Fleet artwork collection

Bird with body facing left and head turned to the right, perched on a tree stump against a plain background. The bird is green, except for its face, which is red. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

• Thomas Watling]
• The drawing is signed "T. Watling delt.", but is undated.
• The drawing is annotated in ink at top right with the number "41.". 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 at top in pencil "Small Parrakeet 2.88". This is repeated in ink at bottom "Small Parrakeet Latham Syn Suppt 2 p 88". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
• This bird was more recently identified as the Little Lorikeet Glossopsitta pusilla in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
• The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawings I. 25". This refers to a related set of drawings from the collections of the 13th Earl of Derby, held in the Library at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire.
• 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 12129
• James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
• Data sheet available
• Latham, John. Supplement II to the General Synopsis of Birds. London: Leigh, Sotheby, 1802.
• 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).