• Title
  Item 03: A Young Mount Pitt bird - natural size [Petrel], ca 1792 / Sydney Bird Painter
• Call number
  SAFE/PXD 680/no. 3
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1792
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  18777
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour with gum arabic on laid paper with a Whatman design watercolour - 47.9 x 30.2 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Dated by comparison with a volume of bird illustrations by the same artist in the Mitchell Library Pictures collection at ZPXD 226; f.4 is dated 1792 - f.81 is dated 1791
  See PXn 882
  Colour transparency digitised 1998
  Digital order no:a1763003
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  A young Mount Pitt bird - natural size -- inscribed underneath image in ink traced over pencil
  one feather drawn of the natural size -- inscribed at upper right in ink traced over pencil
  25 -- inscribed in ink on reverse at upper right corner
• Topic
  birds
  colonial art
  natural history illustrations
  Providence petrels
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (1 September, 1997 - 11 January, 1998)
  ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2010 - June, 2010)
  Impact: a changing land - State Library of New South Wales

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