First Fleet artwork collection

Bird in profile, facing to the left, perched on a branch with some leaves attached against a plain background. The upper parts of the bird are olive green-brown overlaid with darker hatched lines, with a red patch on the rump. It has a red bill with a red stripe across the eye. The underparts are grey. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is annotated in ink at lower left "one third large than the Natural size".
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "167.". 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 "Temporal Finch Syn Sup. 2. 24". This has been copied in ink at lower left, "Temporal Finch Latham Syn Suppt = = 2. p. 211.". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
• This bird was identified as the Red-browed Finch Aegintha temporalis in Hindwood K. A. (1970). (ITIS gives Neochmia temporalis as the preferred taxonomic name for the Red-browed Finch.)
• The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing II. 37". 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 12246
• 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).