- Port Jackson Painter]
- The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "38", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
- The drawing is annotated in brown ink at bottom, possibly in John White's hand, "A New south Wales native stricking [sic] fish while his wife is employed fishing with hooks & lines in her Canoe - ".
- 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 12029
- 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 37, p. 47.)
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