John Cotton b. 1801

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Bird painter, amateur photographer and ornithologist born in England, UK. Resident near Goulburn, NSW his drawings of Australian birds and their settings in pencil, pen and watercolour are outstanding.

Citations

  • 'Ornithological Sketches by a Resident of Port Phillip, NSW’.

  • 'Beautiful Birds’.

  • Cotton, John (1830), 'Journal of a Tour down the Rhine etc. 1830’.

  • Cotton, John (1824), 'Journal of a Tour to Milan by way of Paris, Lyons etc. 1824’.

  • McEvey, A. (1974), 'John Cotton’s Birds of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales 1843-1849’, Melbourne, Vic : (and bibliography).

  • Mackaness, G. (ed.) (1953), 'The Correspondence of John Cotton’, Sydney, NSW : 3 volumes.

  • Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Information sourced from Newton, Gael.

  • Cotton, John (1936), 'The Resident Song Birds of Great Britain containing Delineations of Seventeen Birds’, (1835/1836).

  • Cotton, John (c.1936), 'The Song Birds of Great Britain containing the Delineations of Thirty-three Birds’, (1835/1836).

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870