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"Black and Yellow Bee Eater"

Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [Between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 24.9 x 17.4 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 171

 

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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is annotated in ink at top centre "No 300" and at bottom left "Natural size".
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "92.". 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 "Black & yellow B. eater Sup 2 . 154". This has been copied in ink at bottom left "Black & yellow Bee eater Latham Syn Suppt. 2 p 154". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
  • This bird was more recently identified as the Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing I. 35.", and at bottom right "L Volm. 1-35". 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.
  • There is a separate label attached to the mount alongside the drawing at lower right which is inscribed in pencil ""Lambert" Drawing" (see above).
  • 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 12171
  • 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).
  • This drawing is reproduced in Wheeler, A. and Smith, B, The Art of the First Fleet and other early Australian Drawings. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. (Plate 199, p. 186)