• Title
  Silver-Grey petrel, South Pacific Ocean, May 1840 / J & E Gould [watercolour attributed to Elizabeth Gould]
• Creator
  Elizabeth Gould, 1804-1841
• Call number
  V/351
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  May 1840
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  9653362
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 35.5 x 51 cm - with graphite underdrawing
  
• Collection history
  The watercolour is reproduced and described in Piccadilly notes. No. 9... / [edited by J.H. Stonehouse]. London: Henry Sotheran, 1933 (Mitchell Library call number 598.2901/G). Leonard Joel, The Decorative Arts Collection of James Fairfax AC, Sydney, 1 September 2017, Lot 464. Titled: Elizabeth Gould, Silvery-Grey Petrel (Procellaria Glacialoides) 1840.
• Scope and Content
  Watercolour depicting a pair of male and female Southern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialoides)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Described in Stonehouse, J. (1933). Piccadilly notes. No. 9, containing descriptions of nearly 2,000 original drawings for Gould's birds, etc. : With 32 plates / [edited by J.H. Stonehouse]. London: Henry Sotheran (Mitchell Library call number 598.2901/G) as 792. Petrel, Silver-Grey (male and female), inscribed...£10. 10s. Reproduction of watercolour opposite p. 80. Preparatory watercolour used as the basis for the hand-coloured lithograph signed ‘J. Gould and H.C. Richter del et lith’ and titled ‘Procellaria Glacialoides, Smith. Silvery-grey Petrel’ published in The Birds of Australia, Volume VII, p. 48.
• General note
  
  The paper has a J Whatman / 1837 watermark in top left corner.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed bottom left ‘South Pacific Ocean / May 1840. J & E Gould’, and verso of drawing ‘Silver Grey Petrel’ and ‘10/10/’.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to Elizabeth Gould on basis of stylistic comparisons with known works. Acknowledged as an original drawing by Mrs. Gould in Stonehouse, J. (1933). Piccadilly notes. No. 9, containing descriptions of nearly 2,000 original drawings for Gould's birds, etc. : With 32 plates / [edited by J.H. Stonehouse]. London: Henry Sotheran (Mitchell Library call number 598.2901/G).
• Subject
  Fulmars--Pictorial works.
  Petrels--Pictorial works.
  Sea birds--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20614239

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