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Lewin Wild Art Exhibition Guide INTRODUCING LEWIN: WILD ART STATE LIBRARY OF NSW Lewin: Wild Art is the story of John William Lewin Exhibition opening hours: 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Thursday (1770–1819) — Australia’s first professional artist (Tuesdays open until 8 pm), 9 am to 5 pm Friday to arrive in the young colony as a free man — and 10 am to 5 pm weekends Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 his startling response to our landscape, flora and Telephone (02) 9273 1414 www.sl.nsw.gov.au fauna. Although Lewin is one of Australia’s most significant early artists, this is the first exhibition Curator: Richard Neville to concentrate on his work and life. Exhibition project manager: Lisa Loader This landmark exhibition could not have Exhibition designer: Martin Wale Graphic designer: Marianne Hawke happened without the committed and generous Editor: Cathy Perkins support of Peter Crossing, Sally Crossing AM Preservation project leader: Catherine Thomson and their Belalberi Foundation. Photographic work is by Digitisation & Imaging Services, Initiated by the State Library of NSW, State Library of NSW. Photographers: Bruce York and Hamilton Churton Lewin: Wild Art is a collaboration with the Printer: innovative print solutions National Library of Australia, and draws largely Paper: Raleigh ecoStar silk 300 gsm (cover), on the collections of those two libraries. ecoStar uncoated 120 gsm (text) 100% recycled paper made from 100% post consumer recycled waste In addition, we thank the many public and Print run: 13,000 private lenders, locally and internationally, P&D-3693-3/2012 who contributed works to the exhibition. ISBN 0 7313 7212 3 We also acknowledge the invaluable support of the Australian Government’s National © State Library of New South Wales, March 2012 Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach The State Library of New South Wales is a Program, which aims to improve access to the statutory authority of, and principally funded by, the NSW State Government. national collections for all Australians, in facilitating loans from overseas. The State Library acknowledges the generous support of the Belalberi Foundation in presenting Lewin: Wild Art. The fresh and surprising view of Australia’s Cover image: Warty face honeysucker unique natural history shown for the first time [Regent honeyeater, Xanthomyza phrygia], c. 1913 in Lewin: Wild Art demonstrates yet again the discoveries to be made in our great library and archival collections. A free exhibition at the State Library of NSW 5 March to 27 May 2012 Alex Byrne National Library of Australia NSW State Librarian & Chief Executive 28 July to 28 October 2012 National Collecting Institutions Touring & Outreach Program LEWIN: WILD ART 1 A TALENTED Works are by John Lewin unless otherwise indicated. 8 [Bohemian waxwing – Archival digital prints of many items in this exhibition Bombycilla garrulous], 1797 OBSERVER AND ARTIST can be ordered from the Library Shop, State Library Watercolour of NSW. Please quote the number ‘a____’ from this list. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Multiple entries at 19 and 99 refer to instances when Purchased 2012 there will be page turnings. ML 1266 9 Botany Bay creeper [scarlet Why would a 30-year-old illustrator set sail from Rather than return to England as he had LIFE IN ENGLAND honeyeater – Myzomela London in 1799 for a small convict settlement, intended, Lewin settled permanently in NSW, sanguinolenta], 1798 clinging precariously to Sydney Cove? in what he called one of the finest countries Watercolour 1 Honey buzzard, 1789 National Library of Australia Inspired by the European passion for natural in the world. His opportunity for personal William Lewin PIC R5650 LOC701-F history, John William Lewin wanted to paint and advancement was much greater here than in From William Lewin, Birds of Great Britain, 10 [Moths], 1837 publish Australia’s wild curiosities ‘on the spot, England. Lewin had arrived a skilled artisan — vol. 1, plate 7 Watercolour Moses Harris and not from dry specimens, or notes still more and when he died in 1819 he was described Private collection In Dru Drury, Exotic Entomology, vol. 1, plate 28 abstruse’. He planned to avoid the great problem as a gentleman, and considered himself not Hand-coloured etching, first published 1770 of natural history illustration: that specimens a natural history illustrator but a fine artist. 2 Honey buzzard, 1795 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW DSM/Q595.7/D arriving in Europe from across the world were John Lewin’s story is a typical colonial one William Lewin In William Lewin, Birds of Great Britain, often damaged or poorly preserved. in some ways — a tale of grabbing opportunities vol. 1, plate 7 11 Clapper rail / Semipalmated snipe, John Lewin was born in London in 1770. and using them for social advantage. But it Hand-coloured etching 1785 His father was a fabric designer who became also reveals an original and perceptive response State Library of NSW Peter Mazell RB/DQ598.242/17 In Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology, a professional natural history illustrator and to a new environment; a response developed vol. 2, opp. p. 490 author. Although almost nothing is known in isolation, which prefigures the major 3 Cancer raninus under side, 1789 Engraving about his education and training, young John directions of natural history illustration Peter Mazell after William Lewin State Library of NSW In Voyage Around the World, but more RB/DS591.9999/2 presumably learned his skills by helping of the nineteenth century. particularly to the North-West Coast his father. of America, opp. p. 354 12 Frontal shrike [crested shrike-tit – Arriving in Australia in 1800, Lewin began Richard Neville Engraving Falcunculus frontatus], 1802 State Library of NSW as a conventional natural history illustrator, Mitchell Librarian, curator of Lewin: Wild Art John Latham and Sarah Stone DSM/Q910.41/7A1 In John Latham, General Synopsis of Birds, steeped in English traditions. His immediate vol. 8, supplement 2 4 Sphinx apiformis, 1797 response to Australian nature, however, was Hand-coloured etching William Lewin innovative, creative and completely unexpected. State Library of NSW In William Lewin, ‘Observations respecting Purchased 2004 Lewin was Australia’s first professional some rare British insects’, Transactions RB/2585 artist who was not a convict. He was our of the Linnean Society, 1797, vol. 3, pp. 1–4 Etching first printmaker, created the first Australian State Library of NSW illustrated book, and was one of our earliest DQ580.6/1 TRAGEDY professional naturalists. While a talented 5 Perspective view of observer and artist, Lewin was not a skilled Sir Ashton Lever’s museum, 1785 AND TRIUMPH scientist or writer, and he struggled to establish Sarah Stone himself as a respected naturalist. Watercolour 13 Scarlet breasted robin [scarlet robin Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW – Petroica-multicolour], 1800 Purchased 2001 Watercolour ML 1230 National Library of Australia a128008 PIC R356 LOC703 6 Snails, 1786 14 Spotted side finch [diamond firetail In J Agnew and [J] W Lewin, – Stagonopleura guttata], 1800 British Conchology or Original Drawings Watercolour of Land, Fresh and Saltwater Shells National Library of Australia Watercolour PIC R3855 LOC702 Item on loan courtesy of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London 15 Short billed tit [buff-rumped 7 African heron, 1797 thornbill – Azanthiza reguloides], In William Lewin, Birds of Great Britain, 1800 vol. 5, plate 152 Watercolour Hand-coloured etching National Library of Australia State Library of NSW PIC R3854 LOC701 RB/DQ598.242/21 2 LEWIN: WILD ART LEWIN: WILD ART 3 16 Invoice of goods delivd on board 24 Poitee. Chief of Huaheine, 1802 33 The male coala or native bear, 1803 41 Bombyx tristis [Epicoma tristis], the Buffalo for Mr J. W. Lewin … Watercolour Pencil 1805 March 22 1798 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Linnean Society of London In Prodromus Entomology: Natural History Purchased 1933 Presented 1821 Manuscript of lepidopterous insects of New South Wales, Item on loan courtesy of the Trustees PX*D 379/1 Mss 630/9 plate 8 of the Natural History Museum, London a1642001 Hand-coloured etching (reproduction) Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 25 17 John Lewin to Dru Drury, O.too the present sovereign MRB/ F595.78/L 7 March 1803 of Otaheite, 1802 PRESS PRINT! 42 Bombyx tristis [Epicoma tristis], Manuscript Watercolour Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 1805 Item on loan courtesy of the Trustees 34 Title page of Natural History of of the Natural History Museum, London Purchased 1933 Edward Donovan PX*D 379/2 eighteen nondescript moths, c. 1804 In An Epitome of the Natural History 18 Institutions of Entomology: Being a1642002 Manuscript of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a translation of Linnaeus’s ordines 26 New Guinea, Otaheite … Oteah, 1802 Presented 1993 Hand-coloured etching et genera insectorum, 1773 Watercolour PX*D 258 State Library of NSW Thomas Pattinson Yeats Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW RB/DQ595.7/8 Printed Purchased 1933 35 Sphinx oldenlandioe National Library of Australia PX*D 379/3 [Theretra oldenlandiae], 1803 43 Hook tip – Bombyx Lewinae RB 595.7 L758 a1642003 Watercolour [Lewin’s bag shelter moth – 19 White naped honeyeater Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Panacela lewinae], 1803 27 Ti.po.taa. Brother of Otoo, 1802 Presented 1993 Hand-coloured etching [Melithreptus lunatus] Watercolour PXB 205/2 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Yellow tufted honeyeater Mitchell Library, State
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