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"Grey Flycatcher"
Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 15.6 x 15 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 259

 
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Bird in profile facing to the right, its head pointing downwards towards a small flying insect depicted beneath it. The bird is perched on a branch with some leaves attached, against a plain background. The underparts of the bird are yellow with grey striations. The upper parts are grey, with a yellow area on the rump and a brown patch on the wing, all overlaid with darker hatched lines. 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 "182.". 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 "Grey Flycatcher Sup. 2. 223". This has been copied in ink at bottom, "Grey Flycatcher Latham Syn Suppt 2. p. 223.". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
  • This bird was more recently identified as the Yellow Robin, Eopsaltria australis in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing III 35". 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.
  • A seperate label is attached to the mount alongside the drawing at lower right. It is annotated in pencil "Type = [?]Eopsaltria australis".
  • 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 12259
  • 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).