- Port Jackson Painter]
- The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "79", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
- The instruments are numbered 1-2 and the key is written in black ink in a ruled margin at the bottom of the sheet; "1 Musical Instruments made of hard wood" followed in brown ink by "Called Taw ou rang" and again in black ink "2 A club made of -- do --".
- 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 12070
- 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 55, p. 61.)
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