• Title
  [Blue-faced honeyeater], ca. 1808 / by John Eyre
• Creator
  J. (John) Eyre, 1771-
• Call number
  SV/50
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca.1808 (dated from artist's time of arrival in Sydney in 1801 and his departure ca.1812)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  142354
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 24.6 x 34.3 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  For another example of Eyre's initials see "Sydney Cove" ca. 1806 DG ref. ZDG V1/75
  This drawing is close to John Lewin's etching of the same bird, "Blue face honey-sucker", which was first published in 1808 in Lewin's "Birds of New Holland". For an example of this etching see plate 4 in a later edition, "A natural history of the birds of New South Wales", 1822, ML ref. F598.2/L
  According to vendor, this drawing was removed from a copy of John Lewin's "A Natural history of the birds of New South Wales" (1822), where it was bound next to his plate "Blue face honey-sucker." The book was offered for sale in Christie's Rare Books & Manuscripts, 28 November 1996, Melbourne, lot 669 (the watercolour is illustrated in the catalogue).
  Colour transparency digitised 1999
  Digital order no:a1528413
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Initialled at lower right: IE
• Subject
  Birds--Australia--Pictorial works.
  Ornithological illustration--Australia.
  
• Topic
  blue-faced honeyeaters
  colonial art
  native birds
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (1 September, 1997 - 11 January, 1998)

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