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"Black-headed Creeper"

Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 20.1 x 19 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 185

 

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Bird in profile, facing to the left, perched on a branch set on a green base against a plain background. The head is black, and the back, wings and tail are yellow-brown overlaid with heavy black hatched lines. The throat, breast and belly are white - pale grey overlaid with grey hatched lines. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

 

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