Early Australian Watercolours and Drawings
April 17, 2021 - May 8, 2021
Gallery hours Tues - Fri 11- 5 pm, Sat & Sun 12 - 5 pm
Sarah Stone painted over a thousand watercolours of birds, mammals, fishes and insects including many specimens brought back from Captain Cook’s three round-the-world voyages. The two attractive birds in this exhibition resemble works by Stone found in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London.
Among the Maritime works in our exhibition are Frederick Garling's depiction of the Schooner Eclipse, which was involved in the Maori Wars; a lovely portrait of The Blue Jacket in 1869 by a crew member; a drawing of the Oberon, an Irish sloop...
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