First Fleet artwork collection

A bird, standing on a tree stump on a yellow to green base, facing to the left against a plain background. The bird is brown with black markings over its entire body, with striped paler tail feathers. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is annotated in ink at bottom left "This Bird measures from the Bill to the extremity of the Tail Twenty Four Inches".
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing has been inscribed in ink at top right with the number "11.". This refers to the catalogue list compiled by John Latham c. 1801 which was acquired with the drawings, and is filed with them at the end of the Watling Drawings series.
• The drawing is annotated in pencil at top left "Radiated Falcon. Syn Sup. ii. 53". This has been copied in ink at bottom right "Radiated Falcon Latham Syn Suppt 2 53". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
• This bird has more recently been identified as the Red Goshawk Erythrotriorchis radiatus in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
• The drawing is annotated in pencil at top left "Lambert Drawing III. 24.". This refers to a related set of drawings from the collections of the 13th Earl of Derby, held in the Library at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire.
• 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 reference number 12104
• James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
• Data sheet available
• Latham, John. Supplement II to the General Synopsis of birds. London: Leigh, Sotheby, 1802.
• Hindwood K. A. 'The "Watling" drawings with incidental notes on the "Lambert" and the "Latham" drawings', Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for the years 1968-69 (1970).