Australian Brown Snake. Antique print after S.Stone c1789

by Stone, Sarah

Snake No.1 engraving of an Australian Brown Snake.

Original copperplate engraving after a drawing by Sarah Stone for Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, published in London by J. Debrett in 1789. As well as being Surgeon-General of the British settlement at Port Jackson, White was an avid amateur naturalist who sent a collection of natural history specimens to England in mid-1789. Sarah Stone drew forty-nine of the sixty-five specimens that were then engraved by five London nature artists, Frederick Nodder, Charles Catton Jr., Edward Kennion, Mortimer, and Stone herself.

The Journal was published in black and white, this finely hand-coloured engraving was tinted at a later date. Unfortunately it is soiled at top right and does not appear to be full page. Size of page is usually 28 x 22cm (11 x 8.5 inches)