- Port Jackson Painter]
- The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "17", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
- The drawing is inscribed in brown ink at bottom, below the border, "A View of [Lord] Howe Island (a) Mount Lidgbird (b) Mount Gower", the word "Lord" having been inserted in pencil at a later date.
- T. M. Perry (Wheeler and Smith, 1988) has identified the view as being of the bay on the western side of Lord Howe Island. The Island was discovered by Lieutenant Ball of the First Fleet in February 1788.
- 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 12505).
- 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 100, p. 98-99.)
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![[A View of the coastline on the western side of Lord Howe Island]](image.dsml?imageref=NHM-UK_L_a351100_477_M_1.jpg&width=300)