Botanical sketches of Australian plants, 1803-1806 / John Lewin
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Botanical sketches of Australian plants, 1803-1806 / John Lewin
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SAFE/PXC 304
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9gkdbZJ9
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Botanical sketches of Australian plants, 1803-1806 / John Lewin
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Botanical sketches of Australian plants, 1803-1806 / John Lewin
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1803 - 1806?
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXC 304
Record Identifier
— Physical Description
Contents
265 drawings, on 257 sheets, hinged into booklets - 38-38.5 cm.- 25-28 cm. approx. - watercolour, pen, ink and pencil
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
The listing below has the known current (2003) plant names. The transcribed inscriptions from the original drawings are available with the online images see 'View Transcript'
BOX 1
(a) Xylomelum pyriforme
(b) Unidentified plant
(c) Kennedia rubicunda
(d) Acacia
(e) Macrozamia
1. Phylidrum lanuginosum
Watermark: J...
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
Botanical sketches of Australian plants, 1803-1806 / John Lewin
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
— NOTES
General note
10 drawings are titled or annotated in a hand believed to be Lewin's (cf. copy of letter signed John Wm Lewin, filed at PXn 674). All but 3 of the remaining drawings are inscribed in sepia ink and/or pencil in a number of different hands. The majority have been annotated by Allan Cunningham (cf. Cunningham's hand, ML ref. A 1754 and MLDoc 252) in...
Signature / Inscriptions
I.W.Lewin / 30 August 1805 / New South Wales -- f. d
"This is / for the Govr.s Collection / Mrs King's is already done" -- f.e
"I.W.Lewin / 5 March [?] 1803" -- f. 80
"From Port Dalrymple 1805" -- reverse f.170
"I.W.Lewin / Oct. 26 1806" -- f. 223
"I.W.L. / 30 Nov. 1805" -- f. 262
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Purchased from Mrs Alsop, January 1911
Exhibited in
Lewin: Wild Art
Australian Inspiration
Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens
Identifiers
— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXC 304
Record Identifier
9gkdbZJ9
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https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkdbZJ9/GBPpaqeGve78o
— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
431242
