John White'sJournal of a voyage to new South Wales (1790): comments on the natural history and the artistic origins of the plates

Abstract

This paper discusses three groups of eighteenth century watercolour drawings (two in Australia and one in the UK) which are related to the plates in John White's Journal of a voyage to new South Wales (1790). The 65 plates are then discussed individually giving identifications of the specimens depicted and notes on the natural history of each species from an historical viewpoint.