• Title
  The Green Parrot of Botany Bay, 1 March 1797 / drawing attributed to Sydenham Edwards, engraved by Barlow
• Creator
  Sydenham Edwards, 1768?-1819
• Call number
  SV/254
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  London : 1 March 1797
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  999625
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - engraving, hand-coloured - 19.0 x 12.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Sydenham Edwards (1768 – 8 February 1819) was a British natural history illustrator. After about two years' training, Edwards's work began to appear in Curtis's prestigious Botanical Magazine. His signature is noted first in 1788 on the drawing of a carnation. For the next twenty-seven years nearly all the plates in the journal were Edwards's work. He also contributed to the journals: Flora Londinensis and the New Botanic Garden. As well as producing drawings, he sometimes also engraved the plates. Edwards was also a notable artist of animal subjects, with examples of his works published in Rees's Cyclopaedia and the rare part-publication Cyanographia Britannica (1799–1805) which contains coloured engravings of British dogs which he produced himself as author, artist, and publisher.
• Scope and Content
  The hand-coloured print depicts a parrot from the Sydney region, possibly a Superb Parrot, also known as a Barraband’s Parakeet, or Green Leek Parrot, which is native to southeastern Australia. It is perched on a branch; however it is surrounded by distinctly English plants and background scene.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Published in Carl von Linné, et al. "A Genuine and Universal System of Natural History; Comprising the Three Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Arranged under Their Respective Classes, Orders, Genera, and Species: by the Late Sir Charles Linnaeus. Improved, Corrected, and Enlarged". Vol. 3. London: Printed for the Proprietor by Lewis and Co., [1794-1807?], p.241.
  Digital order no:a6965001
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Drawing attributed to Sydenham Edwards
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Barlow (Engraver)
  
• Subject
  Ornithology--Australia.
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Natural history--New South Wales.
  Natural history illustration.
  Parrots.
  
• Topic
  engravings
  native birds
  branches
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3324525

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