[Watling Drawing - no. 345
Subtitle: "New-Holland Crimson-billed Gull"
By:  Port Jackson Painter]
Language: eng
Subjects: Natural history illustration -- Birds; Art, Australian -- Eighteenth century; Annotations; Aves -- Laridae; <Larus novaehollandiae>
Other titles: [Silver Gull, <Larus novaehollandiae>]
Work titles: Watling Drawing Collection Level Description Component Record
Table of contents: title: Bird in profile, facing to the right with its head facing upwards, holding a fish in its bill.  It is depicted standing on a grey rock overlaid with darker serpentine lines, in front of water represented by a gradated wash of blue through white, pale yellow and pink to blue, overlaid with short horizontal black lines.  There is land in the background to the left, and the sky is stained pink at the horizon.  The bird has a white head and underparts overlaid with grey hatched lines.  The back and wing are blue overlaid with grey, while the tips of the wings are white barred with black.  The bill and legs are red.  The drawing is annotated in ink and pencil, and framed by a pencil border at the top and sides with a base-line of two ruled lines of black ink which separate the drawing from the ink annotations.