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 , 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

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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 4 Sphinx apiformis, 1797 vol. 8, supplement 2 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, a translation of Linnaeus’s ordines Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW New Guinea, Otaheite … 26 Oteah, 1802 Presented 1993 et genera insectorum, 1773 Hand-coloured etching 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 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a601002 Yellow tufted honeyeater Purchased 1950 [Lichenostomus melanops], 1800 Purchased 1933 PX*D 379/4 36 On Eucalyptus Bombyx vulnerans PXC 693/4 Pasted into John Hunter, Birds & flowers a1642004 a418004 of New South Wales drawn on the spot [four spotted cup moth – Doratifera in 1788, ‘89 & ‘90 28 I.deah. Mother of the late king quadriguttata], 1803 44 Banksia beauty [banksia moth – Watercolour of Otaheite, 1802 Watercolour Psalidostetha banksiae], 1803 Collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Watercolour Hand-coloured etching National Library of Australia Presented 1993 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW NK2039 PXB 205/3 Purchased 1950 Purchased 1933 a601003 PX*D 379/5 PXC 693/6 a1642005 37 Rhinopsyche on casuarina a418006 GOING EXPLORING [she-oak moth – Pernattia pusilla], 45 Mimosa ruby 1803 [Cryptophasa rubescens], 1803 20 Lady Nelson & Francis Schooner Watercolour Hand-coloured etching CELEBRITY Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW entering Hunters or Coal River, 1804 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW NATURAL HISTORY Presented 1993 Purchased 1950 SI Neele after John Lewin PXB 205/13 PXC 693/9 In James Grant, Narrative of a Voyage of a601013 a418009 Discovery Performed in his Majesty’s Vessel 29 and young, 1803 the Lady Nelson ... opp. p. 150 Watercolour 38 Oiketicus Lewenii [fagot case 46 Oak beauty [common splendid Engraving (reproduction) Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW moth – Clania ignoblis], 1803 ghost moth – Aenetus ligniveren], Dixson Library, State Library of NSW Purchased 1983 Watercolour Q80/18 1803 ML 896 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a1476005 Hand-coloured etching a928145 Presented 1993 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 21 A sketch on the banks of the PXB 205/20 Purchased 1950 30 , 1804 a601020 Patersons River … c. 1801 PXC 693/13 Watercolour a418013 Watercolour Item on loan courtesy of the Trustees 39 Orgyier Ocks [painted apple moth – Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW of the Natural History Museum, London Orgyia anartoides], 1803 47 Bombyx exposita Purchased 1950 Watercolour [Pernattia exposita], 1822 PXD 388 vol. 1/2 31 Coala or native bear of NS Wales, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a1313001 In A Natural History of the Lepidopterous 1803 Presented 1993 Insects of New South Wales, plate 7 22 Wombats, 1801 Pencil PXB 205/19 Hand-coloured etching Linnean Society of London a601019 Watercolour State Library of NSW Presented 1821 On loan from The British Museum MRB/ Q595.78/L copy1 Mss 630/8 40 P [apilio]. Machaon on the Barberry Presented 1914 [swallowtail], c. 1803 197*.d.4 32 The coola or koala, 1827 Etching 23 King of Otaheito reviewing After John Lewin Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW In Edward Griffiths, The Animal Kingdom … his war canoes, 1802 Presented 1993 The Class Mammalia, vol. 3, opp. p. 50 PXB 205/36 Watercolour Printed a601036 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW State Library of NSW Purchased 1933 RB/DS590.2/19 PX*D 379/25 a1642035

4 LEWIN: WILD ART LEWIN: WILD ART 5 COLONIAL EXOTIC 57 Coal River N.S. Wales, 1807 64 Orchid [flying duck orchid – 73 Near Launceston, Port Dalrymple, Watercolour Caleana major], c. 1809 c. 1809 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Watercolour After GPR Harris 48 The night hawk – drawn agreeable Purchased 2003 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Watercolour to the natural size of the bird ... PXD 942/3 Purchased 1950 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW [tawny frogmouth – Podargus a439003 PXD 388 vol. 2/5 Purchased 1950 strigoides], 1807 a1313022 PXD 388 vol. 1/4 a1313007 Watercolour 65 Red pea [smooth Darling pea? – Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW THE ARTISTIC MILIEU Swainsonia galegifolia], 1802 74 A newly discovered animal of Purchased 2005 Watercolour the Derwent [Tasmanian tiger – V/112 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a928298 58 Sydney Cove, 1806 Thylacine cynocephalus], c. 1809 Purchased 1950 John Eyre Watercolour PXD 388 vol. 2/3 49 Echidna … porcupine ant-eater Watercolour Linnean Society of London a1313019 [short-beaked echidna – Dixson Galleries, State Library of NSW Presented 1821 Mss 630/10 Tachyglossus aculeatus], 1807 Presented by Sir William Dixson, 1951 66 The ground parrot of New South Watercolour DG V1/75 Wales [eastern ground parrot – 75 A Bengal cow and her calf, 1809 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Pezoporus wallicus], c. 1809 Watercolour Purchased 2003 59 A view near Grose Head … 1809 Watercolour Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW PXD 942/1 George William Evans Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Purchased 1950 a439001 Watercolour Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Purchased 1950 PXD 388 vol. 2/6 50 View from Governor Bligh’s farm, Purchased 2007 PXD 388 vol. 2/1 a1313024 Hawkesbury River, New South SV/143 a1313015 a861637 Wales, c. 1807 67 St Phillips [sic] Church Sydney, c. 1808 Watercolour 60 Chiloglottis diphylla, 1813 Watercolour PAINTING TO ORDER Art Gallery of South Australia Ferdinand Bauer Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW JC Earl Bequest and Elder Bequest Funds, 1989 Purchased 1950 In Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae … 76 Eucalyptus, c. 1806 8910P31 plate 8 PXD 388 vol. 1/7 Watercolour Etching a1313013 51 The grey oppossum of New Holland, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Purchased 1911 c. 1807 SAFE/ F581.99/ B copy 1 68 Sydney Cove, 1808 PXC 304/83 Watercolour a2734017 Watercolour MJM Carter AO Collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a633083 Art Gallery of South Australia 61 Pipra, 1806 Bequeathed 1913 77 Hibiscus/heterophyllus [pink hibiscus – L87C2 George Prideaux Robert Harris ML 60 Watercolour a928869 Hibiscus splendens], c. 1806 52 [Studies of a remora fish], c. 1807 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Watercolour Watercolour Purchased 1950 69 Sydney Cove, 1808 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW National Gallery of Australia PXD 388 vol. 4/4 Watercolour Purchased 1911 Purchased 2005 a1313041 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW PXC 304/104 149618 Bequeathed 1913 a633103 ML 50 53 Variegated lizard of NSW a4721001 78 Ricinus [castor oil plant – [lace monitor – Varanus varius], 1807 A MAJOR PATRON Ricinus communis], c. 1806 Watercolour 70 York Town Port Dalrymple, 1808 Watercolour Art Gallery of New South Wales After GPR Harris Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Edward Stinson Bequest Fund, 1990 62 Hibiscus [native rosella – Watercolour Purchased 1911 486.1990 Hibiscus heterophyllus], 1802 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW PXC 304/196 Watercolour Purchased 1950 a633186 54 The southern leaf tailed gecko Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW PXD 388 vol. 1/1 [Phyllurus platurus], 1807 Purchased 1950 a1313003 79 Acacia, 1805 Watercolour Watercolour PXD 388 vol. 2/2 71 A view in Colonel Patersons garden Private collection a1313018 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Yorkton, 1808 Purchased 1911 55 Gymea lily [Doryanthes excelsa], 63 Grevillea [juniper-leaf grevillea – After GPR Harris PXC 304/d 1807 Grevillea juniperina], c. 1809 Watercolour a633004 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Watercolour Watercolour 80 Telopea speciosissima [waratah], c. 1806 Private collection Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Purchased 1950 Purchased 1950 PXD 388 vol. 1/3 Watercolour 56 The Coal River or Port of Newcastle, PXD 388 vol. 2/4 a1313005 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 1807 a1313020 Purchased 1911 72 The second cataract on the PXC 304/206 Watercolour North Esk near Launceston, 1809 a633195 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Purchased 2003 After GPR Harris PXD 942/2 Watercolour a439003 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Purchased 1950 PXD 388 vol. 1/6 a1313011

6 LEWIN: WILD ART LEWIN: WILD ART 7 81 Casuarina stricta [Allocasuarina MAKING A LIVING 99 Blue wrens [superb fairy-wren – AUSTRALIA’S FIRST verticillata], c. 1806 Malurus cyaneus] Watercolour Parakeet [turquoise parrot – ILLUSTRATED BOOK Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 90 Australian brush turkey Neophema pulchella] Purchased 1911 [Alectura lathami], 1809 PXC 304/141 Watercolour Two wrens [southern emu-wren – 105 Variegated warbler [variegated a633138 Dixson Galleries, State Library of NSW Stipiturus malachurus] fairy wren – Malurus lamberti], 1813 Purchased 1962 82 Malva capensis [cape mallow – Crested thrush [crested shrike-tit – In Birds of New South Wales, plate 2 DG V*/GENERAL/6 Hand-coloured etching Anisodontea capensis], c. 1806 a928141 Falcunculus frontatus], 1810 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Watercolour Bound into John Lewin, A Natural History Purchased c. 1932 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 91 Australian & his wife; of the Birds of New South Wales, 1826 SAFE/ C 810 Purchased 1911 natives of Australia, c. 1808 Watercolour a2771013 PXC 304/160 Pencil drawing Alexander Turnbull Library, Rare Books a633156 National Library of Australia and Fine Printing Collection 106 Variegated warbler [variegated PIC R237 LOC704 National Library of New Zealand fairy wren – Malurus lamberti], 1813 83 Goodenia ramosissima [purple fan qREng LEWIN Natu 1826 In Birds of New South Wales, plate 2 flower –Scaevola ramisissima], 92 Blueit, a native of Botany Bay, 1810 100 Coroner’s report on Hand-coloured etching c. 1806 Watercolour Dixson Library, State Library of NSW Watercolour On loan from The British Museum William Simpson, 1813 Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Presented 1893 Manuscript SAFE/Q81/8 Purchased 1911 Dixson Library, State Library of NSW a4726009 PXC 304/44 93 Towwaa, a native of Jarvis Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952 a633044 [Jervis] Bay, 1810 DLADD 159 107 Crested shrike [crested shrike-tit – Falcunculus frontatus], 1813 Watercolour 101 A veiw [sic] of the River 84 Xanthorrhoea [grass tree – On loan from The British Museum In Birds of New South Wales, plate 17 Xanthorrhoea spp], c. 1806 Presented 1893 Hawkesbury, N.S. Wales, c. 1810 Hand-coloured etching Watercolour Watercolour State Library of NSW Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 94 Ventral dissection showing Dixson Galleries, State Library of NSW Purchased 1886 Purchased 1911 viscera of platypus, 1810 Purchased 1955 SAFE/ L10/ L PXC 304/56 Watercolour DG V1B/3 a4727040 a633056 Item on loan courtesy of the Trustees a899811 108 Warty face honeysucker [Regent of the Natural History Museum, London 102 A view of the banks 85 Diuris elongata [purple donkey Richard Owen Collection: f.472.c honeyeater – Xanthomyza phrygia], orchid – Diuris punctata], c. 1806 of the River Hawkesbury, 1813 Watercolour 95 Platypus [ornithorhynchus in New South Wales, 1813 In Birds of New South Wales, plate 14 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW anatinus], 1810 In Absalom West, Views of New South Wales, Hand-coloured etching Purchased 1911 Watercolour plate 20 Dixson Library, State Library of NSW PXC 304/134 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Engraving Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952 a633132 Bequeathed 1913 Dixson Library, State Library of NSW SAFE/Q81/9 ML 1364 Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952 a048062 86 Styphelia triflora[pink five corners], a928146 F81/21 c. 1806 109 Scarlet creeper [scarlet honeyeater Watercolour 96 Crinum peduculatum [swamp lily], – Myzomela sanguinolenta], 1822 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 1808 In A Natural History of the Birds Purchased 1911 Watercolour MYSTERY OF THE of New South Wales, plate 19 PXC 304/33 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Hand-coloured etching a633034 Bequeathed 1913 MISSING BOOKS Dixson Library, State Library of NSW V*/BOT/1 Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952 87 Banksia serrata, c. 1806 a4722001 F82/17 Watercolour 103 Orange breast.’d thrush [rufous Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 97 Australian nuthatch [varied sittella – whistler – Pachycephala rufiventris], 110 Scarlet and black honeysucker Purchased 1911 Daphoenositta chrysoptera], 1808 c. 1804 [scarlet honeyeater – Myzomela PXC 304/19 Watercolour In Prospectus for Birds of New Holland sanguinolenta], 1810 a633023 Hand-coloured etching Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Watercolour Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW SV*/BIRD/AUS/1 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 88 Lambertia formosa Presented 1993 a937140 SV*/BIRD/AUS/2 [mountain devil], c. 1806 PXE 672 a4725001 Watercolour 98 View of Sydney from a4729006 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW the North Shore, 1812 104 Orange breasted thrush [rufous Purchased 1911 Watercolour PXC 304/23 Rex Nan Kivell Collection, whistler – Pachycephala rufiventris], a633027 National Library of Australia 1808 89 Gigantic lily [Gymea lily – PIC T1626 NK4234 LOC701-B In Birds of New Holland, plate 8 Hand-coloured etching Doryanthes excelsa], c. 1806 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Watercolour C 943 Dixson Galleries, State Library of NSW a1170019 DG SV*/BOT/2 a128177

8 LEWIN: WILD ART LEWIN: WILD ART 9 ART OR 119 The woolly kangaroo, 1827 CROSSING THE 136 Evan’s Peak, c. 1816 After John Lewin Watercolour In Edward Griffith, The Animal Kingdom … Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW ILLUSTRATION? The Class Mammalia, vol. 3, opp. p. 49 BLUE MOUNTAINS Presented 1937 (reproduction) PXE 888/11 111 Jabiru [black-necked stork – State Library of NSW 126 Sydney Gazette, 10 June 1815 a303005 RB/DS590.2/19 Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus], c. 1818 Printed (reproduction) 137 F8/56 Sydmouth [i.e. Sidmouth] Valley, Watercolour 120 King parrot, eastern rosella Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW c. 1816 Purchased from Henry Sotheran, 1938 and musk lorikeet, c. 1820 127 Emu Ford, c. 1816 Watercolour V*/BIRD/AUS/7 Richard Read snr Watercolour Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a4723001 Watercolour Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Presented 1937 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Presented 1937 PXE 888/13a 112 Squatter pigeons [common Purchased 1997 PXE 888/1a a303012 bronzewing – Phaps chalcoptera], ML 1142 a303016 a2330001 138 Sidmouth Valley, c. 1816 1819 128 Spring Wood, c. 1816 Watercolour Watercolour 121 Rock lily of New South Wales Watercolour Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Rex Nan Kivell Collection, [Dendrobium speciosum], 1822 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Presented 1937 National Library of Australia Richard Read jnr Presented 1937 PXE 888/13b PIC T1622 NK139/D LOC708 Watercolour PXE 888/2 a303013 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a303002 113 Crested pigeons 139 Campbell River, c. 1816 [Ocyphaps lophotes], 1817 Purchased 2004 ML 1341 129 Jamieson’s Valley, c. 1816 Watercolour (reproduction) Watercolour a128721 Watercolour Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Rex Nan Kivell Collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Presented 1937 National Library of Australia Presented 1937 PXE 888/14 PIC T1624 NK139F PXE 888/3 a303010 a303004 114 Red winged parrot PAINTING IN OIL 140 Macquarie River, c. 1816 [Aprosmictus erythropterus], 1819 130 Pitt’s Amphitheatre, c. 1816 Watercolour Watercolour 122 Fish catch and Dawes Point, c. 1817 Watercolour Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Rex Nan Kivell Collection, Oil Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Presented 1937 National Library of Australia Art Gallery of South Australia Presented 1937 PXE 888/15 PIC T1620 NK139/B LOC706 Gift of the Art Gallery of South Australia PXE 888/4 a303014 Foundation and South Australian Brewing, 1989 a303003 115 Mallee ringneck [Australian ringneck 899P30 141 The Plains, c. 1816 – Barnardius zonarius], 1819 131 The Vale of Clwyd, 1816 Watercolour Watercolour 123 [Murray cod], c. 1817 Watercolour Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Rex Nan Kivell Collection, Pencil Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Presented 1937 National Library of Australia Linnean Society of London Presented 1937 PXE 888/20 PIC T1621 NK139/C LOC707 Presented 1821 PXE 888/5 a303015 Mss 630/1 a303006 116 Superb parrot [Polytelis swainsonii], 142 Campbell River, New South Wales, 132 1817 124 Yellow banded sea perch, c. 1813 Cox’s Pass, c. 1816 1825 Watercolour Watercolour Watercolour After John Lewin Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Linnean Society of London Linnean Society of London In Barron Field, Geographical Memoirs Presented 1937 Presented 1821 Presented 1821 on New South Wales, 1825 PXE 888/6 Mss 630/12 Mss 630/7 Engraving a303007 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 117 Male and female red kangaroo on 125 Zygaena Lewini [scalloped 981/F 133 Cox’s Pass, c. 1816 Liverpool Plains [Macropus rufus], hammerhead – Sphyrna lewini], 1834 Watercolour 143 Tour to the new discovered country 1819 After John Lewin In Edward Griffith, The Animal Kingdom … Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW in April 1815 Watercolour Presented 1937 The Class Pisces, vol. 10, opp. p. 640 Rex Nan Kivell Collection, Printed PXE 888/7 Manuscript National Library of Australia State Library of NSW a303009 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW PIC T1619 NK139/A LOC705 RB/DS590.2/26 134 Cox’s Pass, c. 1816 Purchased 1914 A779 (Safe 1 / 367) 118 Male and female red kangaroo on Watercolour Liverpool Plains [Macropus rufus], Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 144 Journal of an excursion over 1819 Presented 1937 the Blue or Western Mountains PXE 888/8 Oil painting of New South Wales, to visit a tract Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a303011 of new discovered Country … 1849 Purchased 1979 135 Cox’s River, c. 1816 ML 852 Henry Colden Antill a128195 Watercolour Manuscript copy of 1815 original Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Presented 1937 Presented 1935 PXE 888/9 Safe 1 / 20A a303008

10 LEWIN: WILD ART LEWIN: WILD ART 11 145 Yango Mungo Y’eyango, 1815 Watercolour ‘DIED ... AFTER A Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Presented 1984 SEVERE ILLNESS’ P2/417 a3419001 154 John William Lewin’s tombstone, Devonshire Street cemetery, 1900–01 146 A native chief of Baturst [sic], 1820 Josephine Ethel Foster ‘Every thing in Naturall History is contrary to Aquatint Photograph First published in John Oxley, Journals Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW of Two Expeditions into the Interior PXB 768 vol. 3/12 of New South Wales, 1820, opp. p. 302 our known knowledge in England and in fact Dixson Galleries, State Library of NSW 155 Supplement to Sydney Gazette, DG P1/16 18 September 1819 I was greatly puzzled to find any [caterpillars] 147 Yango Mungo Ye Yau Go Printed of Bathurst Plains, 1821 F8/59 Lithograph 156 Invoice from Maria Lewin to J Bohte Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW myself for a great while, not knowing their SV/163 for books delivered, 16 January 1824 a5068001 Printed MLMSS 4337/2 manners … but I have got such an insight into 148 Macquarie River and the Bathurst Plains, c. 1816 157 Panegyric on an eminent artist, Watercolour Parramatta, New South Wales their manners that I have no doubt but that Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW 1804, published 1820+ Bequeathed by David Scott Mitchell, 1907 John Grant V*/Expl/1 Pasted into frontispiece of a128106 Birds of New South Wales, 1813 I shall procure you some of the most Beautifull Printed (reproduction) 149 The Plains, Bathurst, c. 1816 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Watercolour SAFE/ C 810 and rare moths.’ Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a2771009 Bequeathed by David Scott Mitchell, 1907 V*/Expl/2 158 Sydney Gazette, 28 June 1826 a128133 Printed (reproduction) F8/63 JOHN LEWIN TO DRU DRURY, 1803 150 Blue Mountains landscape, c. 1815 Oil on wood (box lid) 159 Map of part of New South Wales, Caroline Simpson Collection, embellished with views in the Historic Houses Trust of NSW harbours of Port Jackson ... 1825 151 Passage over the Blue Mountains, Joseph Cross 1821 Printed Dixson Library, State Library of NSW After John Lewin 82/23 Lithograph a928438 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW SV1B/BLU M/22 a128195

152 Part of Cox’s Pass, New South Wales, 1821 E Purcell after John Lewin Lithograph Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW SV1B/BLU M/21 a128194 153 Passage de Cox dans les Montagnes-Bleues, 1815 Alphonse Pellion In J Arago and A Pellion, Voyage autour du monde ... Atlas Historique, 1825, plate 97 Engraving (reproduction) Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Z/X980/20A a1697107

12 LEWIN: WILD ART ‘There is here (I mean in Sydney) a singular Character, greatly in favour at Government House, his name is Lewin, he is a Painter. He has for a series of years set himself up for a Botanist, Zoologist, Entomologist, Ornithologist, Mineralogist, Conchologist & Artist … He is certainly excellent in his Birds, Beasts, Butterflies & fishes of this country, however he excels in Birds. His botanical subjects are fair but not up to Character, more for Show, than for Correctness, botanically speaking … His paintings decorate the walls of the best rooms of the Government House.’

ALAN CUNNINGHAM, BOTANIST, ON JOHN LEWIN, 1817

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