- Port Jackson Painter]
- The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at to right with the number "73", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
- The drawing is annotated in brown ink at bottom "Dorringa his Wife smeared over with burnt stick & Grease". Lampert (Wheeler and Smith (eds.), 1988, p.20) describes this form of decoration as being used by those attending funeral ceremonies. Dorringawas the wife of Colebee, and this drawing appears to have been paired with Watling drawing number 67, entitled "Colebee when a Moobee after Balloderrees Burial".
- The drawing is unsigned and undated.
- Dorringa (also known as Da-ring-ha or Daringa) is also represented in Watling drawing no. 31.
- 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 12066
- 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 14, p. 30.)
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