• Title
  Oswald W.B. Brierly : [studies of birds, fish, and plants, ca. 1842-1845]
• Creator
  Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.) Brierly, 1817-1894
• Call number
  PXD 73
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1842-1845
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  421770
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 20 drawings (pencil - watercolour) - 48.5 x 51.5 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  Illustrations of wildlife and plants observed by Brierly whilst onboard the yacht Wanderer
  BIRDS
  1. Albatrofs [i.e. albatross] shot on board the Wanderer Mar. 18 1842
  2. Head of Albatrofs [i.e. albatross] shot March on board the Wanderer off Tristain d'Aeuchu? [i.e. Tristan d'Acunha]
  3. [studies of unidentified birds with notes on colour]
  3a. [sketch of unidentified bird on water]
  4. [unidentified birds with notes on colour and inscription - "5. took in to G.S."?]
  5. [Webbed Foot of unidentified bird with notes on size]
  6. Foot of night gull - ? lengthen in some other specimens [with notes on colour and joints]
  6a. [Sailing vessel with notes on weather and position of sails]
  7. Under part of the foot of Pea? Hen
  7a. [sketch of clouds]
  8. [unidentified bird]
  9. [Seagull]
  9a. [partial sketch of a bird]
  10. [Pelican]
  MARINE LIFE
  11. Cat fish caught in Neutral Bay Sydney 17 Jan. 1845. Kalwin Twofold Bay or Acanthopterygii Fam.- Blennides - gen. zoarachidae subgen - anarrh.... [2 sketches]
  12. [Flying fish?]
  13. [Wobbegong or Port Jackson shark. 4 studies]
  PLANTS
  14. Curious sea weed picked up off Tristan d'Acunha .... [with description of bulbs and dimensions]
  15. [Sea weed]
  16. [Waterlily?]
• General note
  
  Some sketches have an additional drawing on the reverse
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824127
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Two sketches are dated, "Mar 18th 1842" and "17 July 1845"
• Name
  Wanderer (yacht)
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Ornithological illustration.
  
• Topic
  botanical illustrations
  fish
  natural history illustrations
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (18 October, 2004 - 6 February, 2005). Applies to: f.13

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