- Port Jackson Painter]
- The drawing is unsigned and undated.
- The drawing is inscribed in brown ink at the lower left corner with the number "83" on its side, and on the reverse "82". These refer to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Port Jackson Collection.
- The drawing is window mounted in cream paper.
- The composition is almost identical to that of drawing number 59 in the Watling Collection. The placing of the figures and the angle of the implements creates a triangular composition, and a more unified effect than the Watling drawing.
- The landscape in which the scene is depicted is very similar to that of drawing number 44 in the Port Jackson Collection.
- 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 12642
- 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. 34, p.45.)
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