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Untitled harbour scene, with people paddling canoes
Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1798]
Dimensions: 20.3 x 31.8 cm
Reference: Port Jackson Drawing - no. 43

 
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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • The drawing is inscribed in brown ink at the bottom left corner with the number "85" on its side, and on the reverse "84". These refer to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Port Jackson Collection.
  • The drawing is window mounted in cream paper.
  • 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) General Library and Picture Library: Picture Library order number 12643
  • Sir Joseph Banks bequest 1827
  • 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. (Pl. 31, p.43.)