Wombats , 1801
John Lewin
Watercolour
On loan from The British Museum Presented 1914
197*.d.4
In 1801 William Paterson sent an English colleague a drawing of a wombat, which he had owned and had ‘alive for some days’. This is one of Lewin’s first watercolours to locate specimens within a specific local environment, an idea he continued to push.
Commentary by Richard Neville, Mitchell Librarian
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