Full title: 'Watling' collection in the Zoology Library, Natural History Museum, ca. 1788-1794 / Thomas Watling and Port Jackson Painter, microfilmed in 1967

Author/creator: Watling, Thomas, b. 1762, Port Jackson Painter.

Date: ca 1788-1794.

Call Numbers: MAV/FM4/3151, Status: unavailable

Record Identifier: nZNvD6Qn

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Formats: Pictures

Contents: 1 microfilm reel of graphic materials - 35 mm - negative

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Notes: PXB 49: Includes 75 photographs of landscapes and aboriginal studies PXB 50: Includes photographs of bird drawings (nos. 105-295], numbered in vol. 1-295. FM5/610-649 are colour transparencies of some bird drawings and FM5/1226-1313 are colour transparencies of drawings nos 1-88. For information about collection, attributed dates and the artists of the drawings see: Rienits, R. & T., Early Artists of Australia, Sydney 1963 Smith, B. European vision and the South Pacific ..., 1960 For this list the numbering of items in the collection is that of the original volume; thus there are two sequences, that is 1-104, 1-335. The second sequence begins the bird drawings. Identification of the birds (numbers 1-295, 2nd sequence) are from: Hindwood, K.A. The "Watling" drawings with incidental notes from the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. Proceedings, 1962-1969, pages 16-32. (ML ref 590.6/8) Identification of the animals (numbers 89-104) are by G.P. Whitley published in Hindwood's article detailed above, as are the identifications of the fish (numbers 305-318, 2nd sequence). Identifications of the shell drawings are from: Iredale, T. - History of N.S.W. shells. Part 3: The settlement years (cont.) in Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. Proceedings, 1956-1957, pages 162-169

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MMS ID: 110340351