• Title
  Volume 04: Natural history drawings of marsupials, reptiles and rodents, ca. 1831-1841 / by James Stuart
• Call number
  PXD 132
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1831-1841
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  404820
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 16 watercolour and pencil drawings on 16 sheets - 35 x 56 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  55. Head of monster FIlly born at Windsor N.S.Wales, Novr 11/41 bearing an extraordinary and striking resemblance to a human head. J. Stuart delt Nov 12/41
  56. Head of a monster Filly
  57. Head of a monster Filly
  58. Wallabies drawn from life by J. Stuart Sydney N.S.Wales, Sep 1835
  59. Phascolarctos (koala)
  60. Perameles nasutus. J. Stuart March 21/38
  61. Phascolarctos or native bear
  62. Flying squirrel drawn from life J.Stuart, July 1832
  63. Choerpus occidentalis - G.Krefft, also fore leg and hind leg
  64. Turtles drawn from life by James Stuart August 1832
  65. Head of Kangaroo J.S. June 23/31
  66. Four views of the head of the great turtle (Testudo Midas Lin.) James Stuart ad vivum delinet June 1832, 30 Peter St. Dublin
  67. Bat. J. Stuart May/38
  68. Bats. New Holland. J.S. June 12/41
  69. (Vespertilio murinus norfolkinse?) A dead bat swinging by his hind legs from a wall in the position in which he died. Jacobus Stuart ad naturam delint Maii 15 1840. Norfolk Island
  70. Petaurus. New Holland. J.Stuart June 26/34
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Some of the inscriptions and titles are difficult to read and there may be errors in the contents list
  Many of the works have pin holes evident in the corners indicating that they were displayed or presented in a different manner at a previous date
  Each sheet has been stamped on the back `Linnean Society of N.S.W. Stuart Drawings' with a running number
  Other Natural history drawings by James Stuart from this Linnean Society of N.S.W collection are located at: PXD 129-140
  Contents list available with the `Natural History drawing' albums
  Digital order no:Album ID : 971119
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Many of the works are initialled `J.S' or signed `J. Stuart' and dated
• Topic
  bats (mammals)
  bones (animals)
  kangaroos
  koalas
  natural history illustrations
  turtles
  wallabies
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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