• Title
  Item 01: [Masked lapwing], ca 1792 / Sydney Bird Painter
• Call number
  SAFE/PXD 680/no. 1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1792
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  18750
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour with gum arabic on wove paper with a J Whatman watermark - 57.4 x 43.4 cm
  
• 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
  Another version of this drawing is in the Watling Collection, Natural History Museum, London (see PXB 50 f.242 Mitchell Library for a black and white print)
  Digital order no:a1763001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Natural size -- inscribed beneath image in ink traced over pencil
  28 -- on reverse at upper right corner in ink
• Topic
  spur-winged plovers
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (1 September, 1997 - 11 January, 1998)

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