Sub-series 03: Watercolour and pencil drawings of insects, caterpillars and spiders from Cuba / attributed to W. S. Macleay

PXE 682/ff. 95-146

sub-series

ca. 1830-1833

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints, Textual Records

6489

50 drawings - pencil, ink and watercolour drawings - approximately 11 x 19 cm
1 print - hand-coloured etching - 21.8 x 13.6 cm
1 item of textual material - manuscript

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Some of the drawings are stamped with the stamp of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
No.95 is signed lower left "W. S. Macleay delt." At top right is inscribed in pencil "This was published in Zoological Journal"
Many of the drawings are inscribed with scientific names and natural history observations
A number of the drawings are inscribed "Havana"

Only one drawing is signed by Macleay, but the collection appears to have been compiled by him in Cuba, and most of the drawings bear stylistic similarities to the signed drawing.

PXE 682/105 and 140 are dated 1833. Macleay lived in Cuba between 1825 and 1836.

Possessed : an exhibition of treasures - State Library of New South Wales (4 March - 29 June, 1997). Applies to: PXE 682/ff. 95, 104