• Title
  Volume 01: Natural history drawings, mainly of birds, ca. 1832-1840, 1895 / by James Stuart
• Call number
  PXD 129
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1832-1840, 1895
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  446309
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 36.5 x 36.4 cm. or smaller - 27 watercolour & pencil drawings on 26 sheets
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)] - head and beak, coloured, / J.S. June 1832 [with description]
  2. [Bird, unnamed]
  3. [Parrot]
  4a. Raven / 1831 / J.S. [head]
  4b. [Vertebrae]
  5. Young Tropic Bird. J. Stuart Jany 17/39
  6. Young Gannet. J. Stuart / Jany 5/39
  7. Young Blackbird / (Nk. Island) / Turdus / J.S. Octr. 27/39
  8. [Turkey showing head and beak]
  9. Acanthiza / From nature / Feby 25/38
  10. [Sea birds] "Sule" J.S. Feby 36/39
  11. Sternae [bird with chick and egg] J. Stuart Jany, 39
  12. Rhipidura / on Seprium indicum? / Jany 5/40 / J.S.
  13. Petroica pulchella Gould / - Daphne indica?
  14. Pseloous? / on Myriosine / urceolata [?]
  15. Tropidorhynchus corniculatus V. V... / Baldheaded Friar / J. Stuart / .../35
  16. Philotes chrysotes Chrysotes / Stuart / Mar 6/38
  17. [Bird with eggs in nest] J.S.
  18. Melephaga / Nova Hollandie vis... / from Nature / J. Stuart / July 22/38
  19. Dacelo / Dacelo / or / Elaeodendron / australe?
  20. Granculus / melanops viz... J. Stuart Mar/36
  21. [Pigeon] / J. Stuart April 1836
  22. [Head and beak] J. Stuart from nature / Jan 3 1832
  23. [Birds on a branch] J. Stuart / March 1836
  24. [Two birds on a branch] J. Stuart June 1836
  25. [Birds] J. Stuart June 1836
  26. Amadina / enicta J. Stuart / March 1835
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Some of the drawings are incomplete.
  Please note: some of the inscriptions and titles are difficult to read and there may be errors in the contents list.
  Many have pin holes evident in the corners indicating they were displayed or presented in a different manner at a previous date.
  Other Natural History drawings by James Stuart from this Linnean Society of N.S.W. collection are located at: PXD 130-140.
  Contents list available with the `Natural History drawing' albums
  Digital order no:Album ID : 954388
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most drawings are signed, "J. Stuart" or initialled, "J.S." and dated
  Many of the sketches are titled
• Topic
  birds
  bones (animals)
  ornithology
  zoology
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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