John Hunter b. 1737

  • Artist (Painter)
Colonial NSW Governor, as well as watercolourist, sketcher, and naval officer. One of his drawings was the basis for the first published illustration of a wombat, his sketch made in 1798 being engraved in London in 1800 by Thomas Bewick for Bewick's 'A General History of Quadrupeds'.
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See also

  • 'Hottentot Fig (Carpobrotus edulis) from The Hunter Sketchbook: Birds and Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788, 89 & 90, reproduced in National Library of Australia News, June 1996, p. 10'.

Initial data sources

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

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