Watling, Thomas
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[between 1792 and 1797] |
16.3 x 13.8 cm |
Watling Drawing - no. 39 |
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- Thomas Watling]
- The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "48", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
- The drawing is annotated in brown ink at bottom "Name Goo-nee-owl-gal".
- The drawing is annotated on the reverse in brown ink, possibly in John White's hand, "Goo.ne.oul.gal".
- The drawing is unsigned and undated, but the style is characteristic of Thomas Watling's, and the drawing has been attributed to him in Wheeler and Smith (1988).
- 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 12039
- 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 59, p. 64.)
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