• Title
  Arthur Bowes Smyth drawings from his journal `A Journal of a Voyage from Portsmouth to New South Wales and China in the Lady Penrhyn ...', 1787-1789
• Call number
  Safe 1/15
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1787-1789
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  430573
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  24 drawings - pen and ink, or watercolour - 29.5 x 58.5 cm or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1. `View of the Peak of Teneriffe at 18 leagues distant.'
  2. `Appearance of the Isle of Mayo 2 Leagues distance.'
  3. `Appearance of the Land abt Rio d.'Janeiro, to the Sugar Loaf Mountain.'
  4. `The Kangaroo'
  5. Emu, or `New genus of Bird at Botany bay 1788'
  6. Grass tree, or `A View of the Tree at Botany Bay, wh yields ye Yellow Balsam, & of a Wigwan'
  7. `Lord Howe Island ...'
  8. `Representation of a Bird of the Coot kind, found at Lord Howe Island ...'
  9. `M'Cauley Island ...'
  10. `Osnaburg Island ...'
  11. `The Bread Fruit'
  12. `Saypan' ; `Tinian'
  13. Compass rose
  14. `Curtis's Isle, South 3 Miles' ; `Curtis's Isle S.S.W. 4 Miles'
  15. Untitled view
  16. Untitled Chinese decorative panel
  17. `View of the Island of Timoan ...'
  18. `View of Pulo Sapato' ; `Pulo Condore ...'
  19. `Pulo Auora. W 10 or 11 Leagues'
  20. `A View of Pulo Auora, (or Palore) ...'
  21. `View of Monopin Hill in the Straits of Banca' ; `View of the Island of Pulo Taya'
  22. `View of the Island of St Helena ...'
  23. `Exact Representation of a Dolphin ...'
  24. Swordfish, or `Representation of the Fish taken by the Steward ...'
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  `View of Grafton Island ...' is on p. 180 of the journal, date entry: 16 October 1788.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824069
  Xerox copyflo on open access at CY Safe 1/15.
  Microfilm copy available at CY 343, frames 1-272 (Safe 1/15)
• Subject
  Birds--Lord Howe Island (N.S.W.)
  Botany Bay (N.S.W.)--Description and travel.
  Lord Howe Island (N.S.W.)--Discovery and exploration.
  
• Topic
  dolphins (mammals)
  emus
  grasstrees
  kangaroos
  natural history illustrations
  
• Place
  Lord Howe Island (N.S.W.)
  Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  O Rio de Janeiro na Rota Dos Mares Do Dul (Rio de Janeiro on the South Seas route) - Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janiero, Brazil (20 November, 2006 - 7 January, 2007). Applies to: no. 33a
  UNESCO Six - State Library of New South Wales (October 2018 - May 2019). Applies to: Safe 1/15 nos. 4, 5, 6, and 8
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8986480

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