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"Chaste Warbler"
Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 12.3 x 13.5 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 275

 
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Bird seen from an almost frontal view, its body turned slightly to the left and its head in profile facing right. It is depicted perched on a branch and leaning forwards, against a plain background. The upper parts of the bird are painted in shades of brown, with dark grey bars on the tail. The underparts are white-grey, with a turquoise blue throat and brown horizontal striations on the breast. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

 
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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is annotated in ink at bottom "Natural size.".
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated
  • The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "200.". 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 "Chaste Warbler Syn Sup 2. 249". This has been copied in ink at bottom, "Chaste Warbler Latham Syn Suppt 2. p. 249.". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
  • This bird was more recently described as "indeterminable" in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
  • The drawing is annotated i pencil at top "Lambert Drawing III. 5.". 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 12275
  • 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).