First Fleet artwork collection

Drawing of a lizard with a long tail in left profile, standing on ground coloured in various shades of green overlaid with darker serpentine lines, with a grey tree stump to the left. The upper two thirds of the sheet are unpainted. The upper parts of the lizard are patterned with a longitudinal band of brown overlaid with a black linear diamond lattice along the top, and pale spots on a dark ground along its side, separated by narrower black and white stripes. The underparts are pale.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing is inscribed in brown ink at the bottom left corner with the number "9" on its side, and on the reverse with "8". These refer to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Port Jackson Collection.
• The drawing is window mounted in cream paper.
• 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) General Library and Picture Library: Picture Library order number 12605
• Sir Joseph Banks bequest 1827
• Data sheet available.