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"Black and White Crow"

Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 23 x 22 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 146

 

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Bird, perched on a tree branch and facing to the left. The head is seen in profile while the body appears as if seen slightly from above, against a plain background. The wings and tail are slightly spread to display white markings on the rump, wings and tail. The throat is also white. 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 brown ink at bottom "Half the Natural size, May".
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "63.". 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 & white Crow Sup. 2.117". This has been copied in brown ink at bottom, "Black and white Crow Lathams Syn Suppt 2 p 117". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
  • This bird was most recently identified as the Pied Currawong, Strepera graculina in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing II.33". 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 12146
  • 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).