• Title
  Native Scenes [snakes, birds & marine life], 1840-1849? / P.H.F. Phelps
• Creator
  P. H. F. Phelps
• Call number
  DL PX 58
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1840-1849?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Drawings
• Reference code
  447925
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (16 ink drawings, 48 watercolour drawings) - 27 x 38 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Courtship in Australia. Contracting an alliance with a neighbouring family
  2. Australian duel
  3. State Ball in Australia. Kangaroo dance
  4. Australian trees
  5. A present to one's friends. "The Bush" of Australia
  6. Australian spearing fish
  7. Australian Aborigines. Cabramatta Tribe [11 individuals identified in margin]
  8. Australian surgery. A black draught
  9. Australian Aborigines
  10. Australian Lady of Distinction
  11. Australian sportsman crawling for emu
  12. Phasolarctos Australis or Koala
  13a. Dingo, or Wild dog of New Holland. Called Wahrick of Warrikal by the Aborigines
  13b. Dingo, or Wild dog of New Holland
  14. Acanthophis Brownii Black Snake of New Holland
  15. Acanthophis viridis
  16. Acanthophis annulatus New Holland
  17. Acanthophis maculatus Van Diemen's Land
  18. Death Adder of New Holland
  19. Acanthophis annulatus
  20. [Empty]
  21. [Unidentified bird]
  22. [Unidentified bird]
  23. Menura Superba, or Lyre-bird of New Holland
  24. Sleepy Lizard New Holland
  25. [Unidentified bird]
  26. Sittella chrysoptera
  27. Musicapa
  28. Motacilla Superba, Linn
  29. Pardalotus varius Diamond bird, New Holland
  30. Halcyon Collaris Land Kingfisher, New Holland
  31. Hoematops lunulatus
  32. Graculus Melanops Leadbeater New Holland
  33. Meliphaga chrysops Golden-eye New Holland
  34. Petroica multicolor Australian Robin
  35. Variety of the Thallassidroma Pelagica or Mother Carey's Chicken
  36. Mother Carey's Chicken, (Thalassidroma pelagica) or Stormy petrel
  37. [Unidentified bird]
  38. Ptilotis cinereus?
  39. Bell Bird, New Holland
  40. [Unidentified birds]
  41. [Unidentified birds]
  42. [Unidentified birds]
  43. [Unidentified birds]
  44. [Unidentified birds]
  45. Blood-brid New Holland
  46. [Unidentified birds]
  47. [Unidentified birds]
  48. [Unidentified birds]
  49. Waratua, or wild tulip of New Holland
  50. Hawk of New Holland
  51. Sailing boat
  53. [Unidentified bird]
  54. Pachycephalus gutturalis
  55. [Unidentified bird]
  56a. Pachycephalus gutturalis
  56b. [Unidentified bird]
  57. Pardalctus Striatus Diamond Bird of New Holland
  58. Physalia Pelagica Portugese Man of War
  59. Physalia Pelagica Portugese Man of War
  60. Minute luminous crustacea
  61. Pyrosoma Atlantica
  62a. Small amphibious reptile
  63. Storm serpent or Great Ribbon Fish
  Inside back cover. Town and harbour of Argostoli[on], in Cephaloni[a]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Album titled from contents list inserted into album
  Ink drawings titled on lower margins or on sheet beneath drawing
  Most watercolours titled above or below image
  Handwritten notes are written onto sheets inserted into the album, related to the drawings on the facing pages
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823619
• Conservation note
  
  Covers worn & some sheets loose.
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  harbours
  native birds
  reptiles
  snakes
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3233988

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