• Title
  Volume 03: New South Wales drawings (‘The Lambert Drawings’)
• Call number
  SAFE/PXD 1098/vol. 3
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1790s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  940941
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  49 drawings - watercolour
  
• Collection history
  Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842), probably before May 1797*; sale, S. Leigh Sotheby, 26 Lower Grosvenor Street (the residence of the late Mr Lambert), London, 18-20 April, 1842 (Catalogue of the valuable botanical library of the late A.B. Lambert, F.R.S., F.S.A., &c, of Boyton House, Wiltshire), lot 444 (‘New South Wales; 225 most beautiful Drawings, in Colours, of the Quadrupeds and Birds of New South Wales, with the Names of the Birds inserted in pencil by Jo. Latham and an Autograph Letter from him to A.B. Lambert, Esq., concerning the Collection; in 3 vol. calf n.d.’). The 13th Earl of Derby, Knowsley, and thence by descent to the 19th Earl of Derby.
• Scope and Content
  The watercolours are listed in numerical order as they appear and are numbered in the Lambert albums. The first number in brackets refers to the old Watling drawing number, the second number in brackets refer to the post-1984 Watling mount number. Titles of the majority of the subjects are taken as follows: from the current titles given to the matching Watling Collection subjects in the Natural History Museum, London (First Fleet Artwork Collection); where there is no matching work they are titled according to Latham’s pencilled Latin identifications on the watercolours.
  
  
  Volume 3 (containing 49 watercolours, comprising):
  1 New Holland Snipe (Watling 313/241)
  watercolour on paper
  
  2 White-bellied Bittern (Watling 307/235)
  watercolour on paper
  
  3 Fair Falcon (Watling 108/15)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  4 New Holland Manakin (Watling 288/213)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’, this sheet has been bound upside down
  
  5 Chaste Warbler (Watling 275/200)
  watercolour on paper
  
  6 Orange-winged Nuthatch (Watling 162/81)
  watercolour on paper
  
  7 Black and White Goose (Watling 352/284)
  watercolour on paper
  
  8 White Albatross (Watling 337/269)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  9 Fuliginous Petrel (Watling 349/281 but here incorrectly referenced `W282.’)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  10 Fuliginous or Norfolk Island Petrel, or Mutton Bird (Watling 350/282 but here incorrectly referenced ‘W281.’)
  watercolour on paper
  
  11 High-legged Plover (Watling 318/246)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  12 Little Bittern (Watling 308/236)
  watercolour on paper
  
  13 Norfolk Island Petrel, or Mutton Bird (Watling 348/280)
  watercolour on paper
  
  14 Pied Flycatcher (Watling 267/190)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  15 New-Holland Crane (Watling 303/230)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  16 Brown Plover (Watling 324/253)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  17 Common Curlew (Watling 311/239)
  watercolour on paper
  
  18 White-headed Finch (Watling 244/165)
  watercolour on paper
  
  19 New-Holland Crimson-billed Gull (Watling 345/277)
  watercolour on paper
  
  20 Erect Shrike (Watling 119/29)
  watercolour on paper
  
  21 Bittern (Watling 306/234)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 J Whatman’
  
  22 Glossy Cuckoo (Watling 158/76)
  watercolour on paper
  
  23 Hook billed Shrike (Watling 116/26)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 J Whatman’
  
  24 Radiated Falcon (Watling 104/11)
  watercolour on paper
  
  25 Noisy Roller (Watling 148/65)
  watercolour on paper
  
  26 Brown-eared Sandpiper (Watling 316/244)
  watercolour on paper
  
  27 Crescent Plover (Watling 320/249)
  watercolour on paper
  
  28 White-tailed Warbler (Watling 276/201)
  watercolour on paper
  
  29 Red-bellied Flycatcher (Watling 250/172)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J ‘Whatman’
  
  30 Rose-breasted Flycatcher (Watling 260/183)
  watercolour on paper
  
  31 Caledonian Heron (Watling 305/232)
  watercolour on paper
  
  32 Clouded Shrike (Watling 117/27)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  33 Grey-headed Thrush (Watling 236/157)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  34 Ciliary Warbler (Watling 284/209)
  watercolour on paper
  
  35 Grey Flycatcher (Watling 259/182)
  watercolour on paper
  
  36 Red-bellied Flycatcher (Watling 248/170)
  watercolour on paper
  
  37 New-Holland Tern (Watling 342/274)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  38 Orange-rumped Flycatcher (Watling 264/187)
  watercolour on paper watermarked `1794 / J Whatman’
  
  39 Grisled Plover (Watling 317/245)
  watercolour on paper
  
  40 Caerulean Manakin (Watling 289/214)
  watercolour on paper watermarked `1794 / J Whatman’
  
  41 Bridled Plover (Watling 323/252)
  watercolour on paper
  
  42 Crimson-breasted Warbler (Watling 281/206 but here incorrectly referenced `W.207')
  watercolour on paper
  
  43 Scarlet-breasted Flycatcher (Watling 266/189)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  44 Black-eared Bee-eater (Watling 170/91)
  watercolour on paper
  
  45 [1] Unidentified (Watling 238/159) and [2] Flycatcher (Watling213/135) watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  46 Variable Warbler (Watling 234/155)
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
  
  47 “Turdus punctatus”
  watercolour on paper
  
  48 Pale Pigeon (Watling 300/226)
  watercolour on paper
  
  49 ‘Procellaria cinerea”
  watercolour on paper watermarked ‘1794 / J Whatman’
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  New South Wales drawings : the property of the Earl of Derby : important early Australian watercolours from the library of the 13th Earl of Derby at Knowsley [catalogue] / Christie's. [London : Christie's, 2011]
• General note
  
  Incorrect identifications and reference numbers in Christie's catalogue, 2011:
  Number 13 Red-bellied Flycatcher (Watling 248/280)
  Number 39 Temporal Finch (Watling 245/317)
  Number 40 Coerulean Manakin (Watling 289/214)
  Number 42 Crimson-breasted Warbler (Watling 282/207)
  
  Identifications and reference numbers reviewed February-March, 2012
  Digital order no:Album ID : 961230
• Exhibited in
  
  TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby collection of natural history watercolours, 1790s - State Library of New South Wales (12 December, 2011 - 12 February, 2012). Various page turnings on view
  Artist colony: drawing Sydney’s nature - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE341515

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