Collection of watercolours by John William Lewin : from the collection of William Bligh

fonds

1807

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

430515

3 drawings - watercolour

ITEM 01
Echidna Australian egg-laying monotramataus mammal. Porcupine ant-eater, 1807 / by I.W. Lewin

ITEM 02
The Coal River or Port of Newcastle New South Wales ... / watercolour drawing possibly by John William Lewin

ITEM 03
Coal River N.S. Wales, 1807 / watercolour by I.W. Lewin

Each watercolour is described in greater detail in separate records which you can navigate to from this collection record.

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

Purchased from a descendant of William Bligh.

The drawings appear to be part of a larger commission of John Lewin watercolours ordered by Governor Bligh in late 1807. A number of other drawings by Lewin from late 1807 (October, November and December) with a Bligh provenance have survived. For instance the Art Gallery of NSW's "Variegated Lizard of New South Wales" is dated 3 December 1807 (the same date as "Coal River - Hunter River"), while the "Southern Leaf Tailed Gecko" (Art Gallery of South Australia) is dated 3 November 1807.