[Three hand coloured bird etchings by J. W. Lewin]
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[Three hand coloured bird etchings by J. W. Lewin]
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PXE 672
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1JkjgkVY
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[Three hand coloured bird etchings by J. W. Lewin]
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1805
Call Numbers
PXE 672
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— 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
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
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— 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
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63768