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"A Canoe of New South Wales"
Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 19.7 x 33.5 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 27

 
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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "36", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
  • The drawing is annotated in brown ink at bottom centre "A Canoe of New South Wales."
  • 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 12027
  • 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 45, p. 53.)