• Title
  Item 02: [Maned or Wood] Duck [&] Drake, ca 1792 / Sydney Bird Painter
• Call number
  SAFE/PXD 680/no. 2
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1792
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  18776
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour on wove paper, with J. Whatman watermark -- gold paint highlights on drakes wing - 45 x 57.5 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
  Digital order no:a1763002
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Of These Ducks only four or five have been killed + these have been shot in trees -- inscribed underneath drawing in pencil and traced over in ink
• Topic
  ducks
  Maned Ducks
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Undercurrents - Parramatta Heritage Centre (31 October, 2003 - 25 January, 2004)

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