First Fleet artwork collection

Bird in profile, facing to the right. It is depicted standing on a green-yellow mound overlaid with grey serpentine lines, in front of a view of water and distant islands. The water is represented by a gradated wash of blue through to pale yellow and grey on the horizon, overlaid with short horizontal lines of black in the foreground and grey in the mid-ground. The bird has a pale green patch around the eye, a white chin and belly, and a yellow throat and breast overlaid with grey hatched lines and black markings. The upper parts of the bird are painted in shades of brown, chestnut towards the top, overlaid with black hatched lines and spots on the shoulder. The drawing is annotated in ink and pencil, and framed by a pencil border at the top and sides. The ink annotations are contained in a 2 cm. high border beneath the drawing, outlined by three ruled lines of black ink above and two below.