First Fleet artwork collection

The bottom half of the sheet contains a painting of a tree with red fruits, with a detail of a branch and seeds on the top half. The branch is green with many forks off the main stem, but no visible leaves, and the fruit are red and oval shaped, with yellow seeds on the end. Between the two main drawings there is a detail of three seeds, two of which are yellow in colour and one white. The drawing is annotated in black and brown ink.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "375", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling collection.
• The drawing is annotated in black ink on either side of the detail on the top half of the sheet "Natural Size", at centre "Natl size", and at bottom "The Cherry of New South Wales. Found in Sandy soil about Eighteen feet in heigth [sic] and forms a very close cover ... fruit ripe in October.", to the end of the first row of which has been added in brown ink "= or twenty".
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• 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 12440
• James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
• Data sheet available