• Title
  [Three hand coloured bird etchings by J. W. Lewin]
• Creator
  J. W. (John William) Lewin, 1770-1819
• Call number
  PXE 672
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1805
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  63768
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  3 prints - hand coloured etchings, sewn into a booklet of 8 leaves. - 37.6 x 27.4 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  5. "Rock Warblar" 28.8 x 21.2 cm plate; 30.4 x 22.9 cm sheet trimmed
  9. "Orange breast'd thrush" 28.8 x 21.2 cm plate; 30.2 x 23 cm sheet trimmed
  13. "Black thrown'd thrush" 28.7 x 21.4 cm plate; 30.3 x 23 cm sheet trimmed
• 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
  
  "Rock Warblar" is an earlier state of "Solitary Warbler" plate 16 in J. W. Lewin, Birds of New Holland, 1808, (Location no. MSS ZC943 Mitchell Library) & "Rock Warbler" plate 3 in J. W. Lewin, Birds of New South Wales, 1813, (Location no. MSS ZC810 Mitchell Library)
  "Orange breasted thrush" is an earlier state of "Orange-breasted thrush" plate 8 in J. W. Lewin, Birds of New Holland, 1808, & "Orange breast thrush" plate 7 in J. W. Lewin, Birds of New South Wales, 1813
  
  "Black crown'd thrush" is an earlier state of "Black crowned thrush" plate 10 in J. W. Lewin, Birds of New Holland, 1808, & "Black crown thrush" plate 6 in J. W. Lewin, Birds of New South Wales, 1813
  Transferred from PX*D 262
  Digital order no:Album ID : 930751
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Stamp of Linnean Society of NSW is on p. 1
  Also on p. 1 is inscribed in ink "Alex Mcleay"
  "Rock Warblar" head of p. 3; followed by descriptive text
  "Orange Breasted thrush" head of p. 7; followed by descriptive text
  "Black crown'd thrush" head of p. 11; followed by descriptive text
  Descriptive text is hand written, and notes the physical features of each bird, their habitats and call, and the date they were shot (all 1803). The text is possibly in Lewin's hand (compare with Lewin's manuscript "Natural history of eighteen nondescript moths", 1804: Location no. PX*D 258 Mitchell Library)
  
  On 3 of the leaves are hand written descriptions of the birds depicted.
• Date note
  
  ca. 1805, dated between year bird specimens were shot (noted in text accompanying etchings) and the publication of Lewin's Birds of New Holland, 1808. Location no. MSS ZC943 Mitchell Library
• Conservation note
  
  Spine repaired, January 2011
  Booklet was once bound between 2 boards which are now loose.
• Subject
  Birds--Pictorial works.
  Natural history illustration.
  Natural history--Pictorial works.
  Ornithological illustration.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Lewin: Wild Art - State Library of New South Wales (5 March - 28 October, 2012)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3389694

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