News & Views item - September 2005

 

 

First Fleet Artwork Collection from the Natural History Museum in London. (September 12, 2005)

    Some 600 drawings and paintings of the landscape and natural history of Australia rendered by artists who landed with the First Fleet at Sydney Harbour in 1788 are now available online at the website of the Natural History Museum of London.

 

    Below we reproduce the opening page to the virtual exhibit.