456493
- TitleSpecimens from New Holland three etchings [and artist's notes, 2006] / by Robyn A. Mayo
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- Call numberPXX 34
PXA 1101 - Level of descriptionfonds
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[2000, 2003, and 2006] - Type of material
- Reference code456493
- Physical Description3 prints (1 folder) - etching plate 50 x 100 cm. ; paper 74 x 114 cm. - etchings
Textual Records (1 volume) - 31 x 24 cm. - ill., printed - Scope and ContentEtchings (Call No.: PXX 34)
Plate 1. A selection of the oldest known botanical specimens from the Australian continent. The drawings were taken from a ... collection of plant species collected by William Dampier, now housed in the Fielding Druce Herbarium at Oxford University in England. These specimens date back to 1699 [and] were displayed in the Western Australian Museum in 1999 under the title "A Voyage of Discovery". [Mayo] visited Perth during the exhibition to draw the specimens for [her] plate ...
Plate 2. "Carl Linnaeus was so impressed with the Natural History Collection made on Cook's first voyage he felt New South Wales should be called Banksia in Banks' honour ... instead the name was given to a genus of plants." The drawings for this plate were executed at the Natural History Museum, London and The Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. [Mayo] drew many of the original specimens collected by Banks and recorded by Solander on board the Endeavour. They sailed more than two thousand miles along the east coast of Australia, an outstanding feat of navigation, collation and classification.
Plate 3. Platypus specimen Ornithorhynehus Anatinus number A3316. The French voyage of discovery to the South Lands (1801-1804) authorised by Napoleon left Le Havre in 1800 under Captain Nicolas Baudin to explore the coastline of the Australian Continent and Tasmania. Depsite Baudin's death and that of several other artists and scientists who accompanied him, 18,414 individual items were returned to France, comprising 3,872 distinct species, of which 2,542 were at that time said to be undiscovered. The Museum d'histoire naturelle, Le Havre contains this collection of specimens, drawings and watercolours. The skeleton of the platypus from the Museum d'histoire naturelle, Paris is the only specimen existing today, provenanced to Baudin's voyage. The drawings used as reference for the plate were executed while the skeleton and other zoological items from Baudin's "Voyage of Discovery" were on display in Terre Napoleon: Australia through French eyes, 1800-1804 at the Museum of Sydney, [Feb]-May 1999.
Artist's notes (Call No.: PXA 1101)
Artist's notes with illustrations and details of the etchings, also a curriculum vitae of Robyn Mayo, her exhibitions, awards, commissions and private/corporate collections holding her work - Access Conditions
Access via appointment - General note
Contents list devised from PXA 1101 and the Mitchell Library file
The exhibition Specimens from New Holland included these three etchings, the Navigator's table by Robyn Mayo and Thomas Kennedy, two etched plates and 13 pen & ink drawings -- Source: Exhibition price list
Etchings titled, described, dated (nos 1,3: 2000 & no.2: 2003) and signed Robyn A. Mayo in pencil
Limited ed. 3/20
Etchings on cream watermarked Arches, France paper; endpapers on white embossed and watermarked Arches aquarelle, France paper
PXX 34 transferred from PXD 995, 10 November 2023 - Name
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