- Thomas Watling
- The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "43", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
- The drawing is inscribed at bottom centre in pencil "NANBREE."
- The drawing is signed in pencil at lower right "T. Watling delt.", but is undated.
- Nanberry was adopted at the age of 9 or 10 by John White, the surgeon-general to the colony, in April-May 1789, after his family died in the smallpox epidemic of that time. (ref. Smith, Keith Vincent. Bennelong: the Coming in of the Eora, Sydney Cove, 1788-1792. East Roseville NSW, Kangaroo Press, 2001.)
- 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 12034
- 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 58, p. 64.)
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