In a very few cases the artist is identified, being either Colonel William Paterson (Coll: Paterson) or Thomas Watling (T.W.). Items listed “watercolour on paper watermarked ?” indicates that the watermark is not visible.

The majority of these drawings probably sent from Port Jackson not before October 1794 (from the date on sheet 140), probably directly to Thomas Wilson, or to Lambert, and were accompanied by specimens for James Edward Smith. White left the colony on 17 December 1794. One sheet is watermarked 1795. Inscriptions on the versos of two drawings confirm...

13th Earl of Derby’s bookplate on front pastedown

Numerous subjects here are variants of drawings by Watling and the Port Jackson Painter (and are possibly by the same hands) in the Watling and Banks Ms34 collections: for example:
p.19 Native name Givee en - Watling 467 (“Flowering shrub, ‘native name Givee en’”)
p.20 - Watling 456
p.23 - Watling 425
p.24 - Watling 426
p.25 - Watli...

Album is contemporary calf gilt, rebacked with 19th century speckled calf gilt in compartments with green morocco lettering piece titled ‘DRAWINGS OF PLANTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES’

The watercolours are listed in numerical order as they appear in the album.

New South Wales drawings : the property of the Earl of Derby : important early Australian watercolours from the library of the 13th Earl of Derby at Knowsley [catalogue] / Christie's. [London : Christie's, 2011]

Titles of the majority of the subjects are as follows: current common name where identified; according to the English and Latin inscription...

Artist colony: drawing Sydney’s nature