[Three hand coloured bird etchings by J. W. Lewin]
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    [Three hand coloured bird etchings by J. W. Lewin]

    Call numbers

    PXE 672

    Record identifier

    1JkjgkVY

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    [Three hand coloured bird etchings by J. W. Lewin]

    Full title

    [Three hand coloured bird etchings by J. W. Lewin]

    Author / Creator

    Lewin, J. W. (John William), 1770-1819

    Date

    ca. 1805

    Call Numbers

    PXE 672

    Record Identifier

    1JkjgkVY

    Formats

    Pictures and Prints

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    3 prints - 37.6 x 27.4 cm. - hand coloured etchings, sewn into a booklet of 8 leaves.

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Series

    Access and use

    Copying Conditions

    Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955

    Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

    Physical Access Conditions

    Access to this pictures collection via appointment only. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian

    Issue Copy

    Digitised

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Birds--Pictorial works. Natural history illustration. Natural history--Pictorial works. Ornithological illustration.

    More information

    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    5. "Rock Warblar" 28.8 x 21.2 cm plate; 30.4 x 22.9 cm sheet trimmed
    9. "Orange breast'd thrush" 28.8 x 21.2 cm plate; 30.2 x 23 cm sheet trimmed
    13. "Black thrown'd thrush" 28.7 x 21.4 cm plate; 30.3 x 23 cm sheet trimmed

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    [Three hand coloured bird etchings by J. W. Lewin]

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    — NOTES

    General note

    "Rock Warblar" is an earlier state of "Solitary Warbler" plate 16 in J. W. Lewin, Birds of New Holland, 1808, (Location no. MSS ZC943 Mitchell Library) & "Rock Warbler" plate 3 in J. W. Lewin, Birds of New South Wales, 1813, (Location no. MSS ZC810 Mitchell Library)
    "Orange breasted thrush" is an earlier state of "Orange-breasted thrush" plate 8...

    Signature / Inscriptions

    Stamp of Linnean Society of NSW is on p. 1
    Also on p. 1 is inscribed in ink "Alex Mcleay"
    "Rock Warblar" head of p. 3; followed by descriptive text
    "Orange Breasted thrush" head of p. 7; followed by descriptive text
    "Black crown'd thrush" head of p. 11; followed by descriptive text
    Descriptive text is hand written, and notes the phys...

    Date note

    ca. 1805, dated between year bird specimens were shot (noted in text accompanying etchings) and the publication of Lewin's Birds of New Holland, 1808. Location no. MSS ZC943 Mitchell Library

    Conservation note

    Spine repaired, January 2011

    Booklet was once bound between 2 boards which are now loose.

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Deposited by the Linnean Society of New South Wales on permanent loan, 1970; subsequently presented to the Library, 1993

    Exhibited in

    Lewin: Wild Art

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    PXE 672

    Record Identifier

    1JkjgkVY

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    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    63768

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