| Abstrakt: |
The study reviews the collaborative series of Sydney Cove artworks conceived by Surgeon General John White and created by convict Thomas Watling during the years 1792 - 1794 in Australia. The unlikely collaboration of Thomas Watling, a convicted felon yet the first accomplished British artist to reside in Australia, with Surgeon General John White, established a focus for the development of colonial artwork. The original drawings and paintings of natural specimens along with the narrative for White's superbly illustrated journal of natural philosophy, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales (1790), were never found. White's natural philosophy specimens sent to London for the creation of a series of fine coloured etchings designed for a second publication were thwarted by the mismanagement of an intermediary, Aylmer Bourke Lambert. An analysis of the art of the White-Watling couplet designed principally for White's pictorial journals is the focus of this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
