• Title
  Collection 24: Australian flowers, 1787-1799 / possibly by William Dawes
• Creator
  William Dawes, 1762-1836
• Call number
  SAFE/PXD 17
  
• Level of description
  sub-fonds
• Date
  
  1787-1799
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  446814
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  33 drawings - watercolour
  
• Scope and Content
  p. 1: unidentified
  p. 2, no. 1: Campanula; no. 2: unidentified; no. 3: Anthericum
  p. 3, no. 1: Lobelia; no. 2: Orchid
  p. 4: unidentified
  p. 5: New genus Decandria Monogynia
  p. 6: Epidendrum
  p. 7: Brabejum
  p. 8: unidentified
  p. 9: unidentified
  p. 10: Clematis
  p. 11: Scoevola
  p. 12: Solanum stelligesum
  p. 13: Embothrium buxifolium
  p. 14: Crinum
  p. 15: Pandr. 1 gyn `alive at Lee's'
  p. 16, no. 1: unidentified; no. 2: unidentified
  p. 17: Guarea
  p. 18, no. 1: unidentified; no. 2: unidentified
  p. 19: Ceratopetalum
  p. 20: Convollaria or Dracoena
  p. 21, no.1: Viola; no. 2: Drosera; no. 3: Hyris bracteata
  p. 22: Mimosa
  p. 23: Styphelia
  p. 24: Drosera dichotoma
  p. 25, no. 1: unidentified; no. 2: unidentified
  p. 26: new genus Monadelphia
  p. 27: Melaleuca
  p. 28: Epidendrum
  p. 29: Mesembryanth
  p. 30: Anthericum [with butterfly, caterpillar, insect]
  p. 31, no. 1: Fern done at N. Island; no. 2: Red hibiscus flower; no. 3: Climbing plant / flower
  p. 32: unidentified
  p. 33: Spruce tree of New Zealand (titled in ink in unknown hand)
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Now attributed as possibly by William Dawes, Marine, who travelled with the First Fleet. (see Natural Curiosity. Unseen art of the First Fleet, Anemaat, L., Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2014)
  Previously attributed to George Raper, able seaman on board the Sirius, promoted Midshipman en route. Raper was one of the crew stranded on Norfolk Island for almost a year following the wrecking of the Sirius on 19 March 1789. He returned to Port Jackson on board the Supply in February 1791 and embarked on the Waaksaamheid to return to England in the same month.
  Raper is known for his watercolour paintings and drawings of landscape, flora and fauna.
• General note
  
  Titles written in pencil in the hand of Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828), founder of Linnean Society.
  Notes on Raper's drawings (ML PXD 17 and PXD 18), compiled by the Mitchell Library, are located at PXn 368.
• Subject
  Artists--Australia--18th century.
  
• Topic
  botanical illustrations
  botany
  colonial art
  flowers
  natural history illustrations
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Painting the Pacific
  Possessed : an exhibition of treasures
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE4599460

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