FIVE BOTANICAL STUDIES, c.1805

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
4 May 2016
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JOHN WILLIAM LEWIN

(1770 – 1819)
FIVE BOTANICAL STUDIES, c.1805

pencil and watercolour on paper

(I) BOTANICAL STUDY, (HANDSOME FLAT PEA), c.1805
32.5 x 23.5 cm
inscribed upper right: 171 inscribed lower left: Platyfolesuim formosum inscribed lower right: Platylobium formosum / X / Smith
(II) BOTANICAL STUDY, (HAIRY BUSH PEA) c.1805
33.5 x 20.0 cm
inscribed upper centre: 188 inscribed lower right: Pultenaea villosa Sm. X
(III) BOTANICAL STUDY, (FUCHSIA HEATH), c.1805
30.0 x 20.0 cm
inscribed upper centre: A inscribed upper right: 30 inscribed lower left: X Epacris [illeg.] / Smith
(IV) BOTANICAL STUDY, (NARROW-LEAVED MINT-BUSH), c.1805
29.0 x 22.5 cm
inscribed upper right: 212 inscribed lower left: C. Didynamia inscribed lower right: Prostanthera linearis / a bad figure / X / oil / [illeg.] / R. Br / [illeg].
(V) BOTANICAL STUDY, (RED SPIDER FLOWER), c.1805
29.5 x 20.0 cm
inscribed upper centre: a [illegible] of 13 inscribed upper right: 14 inscribed lower left: Embothrium inscribed lower right: Grevillia punicea

 

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000 (5)
Sold for $244,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 42 - 4 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Commissioned by Phillip Gidley King, Governor of New South Wales, 1800 – 1806
Governor and Mrs King, New South Wales
Thence by descent
Ms E. Goldfinch, New South Wales, granddaughter of Governor King
Blaxland family, New South Wales, acquired from the above in 1905
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1999