First Fleet artwork collection

Landscape with hunting scene, framed in tondo with a black ink border andmeasuring 10.5 cm. in diameter. The landscape includes dense woodland to the right, in the shadows of which an aborigine is depicted raising a spear towards a kangaroo in open land to the left. Both figures are painted in silhouette. There is a further clump of trees in the mid-ground to the left, and a stretch of water to the right with hills behind it. The trees and land are painted in different shades of green wash overlaid with darker horizontal lines. The sky is composed predominantly of blue washes around unpainted areas, with some patches of pink, yellow and grey. The drawing is annotated in brown ink.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is inscribed in pencil at top right with the number "83", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
• The drawing is annotated in pale brown ink at bottom "A Native spearing a Kangaroo".
• 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 order number 12074
• James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
• Data sheet available.
• Wheeler, A. and Smith, B, (eds.) The Art of the First Fleet and other early Australian Drawings. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. (Plate 47, p. 54.)