Sarah Stone b. c.1760

Also known as Mrs Smith, Miss Stone
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sarah Stone worked as a painter and natural history illustrator in England between 1777 and 1820, and although she never visited the Pacific region she became renowned for her depictions of Hawaiian, Pacific and Australian subjects. Her drawings were the first studies of certain natural history species, a fact which makes them of considerable scientific interest.

Citations

  • (April 1994), 'Fine Australian Paintings’, Melbourne, Vic. : Sotheby’s catalogues, .

  • Force, Roland and Force, Maryanne (1968), 'Arts and Artefacts of the 18th Century’, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

  • Jackson, Christine E. (1998), 'Sarah Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds’, London, England: Merrell Holberton and The Natural History Museum.

  • Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyn (1988), 'Art of the First Fleet’, Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the British Museum (Natural History).

  • White, John (1790), 'Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty Five Plates of Nondescript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, Curious Cones of Trees and Other Natural Productions’, London, England.

  • Information sourced from British Museum (Natural History), London, England.

  • Information sourced from Clarke, Jane.

  • Information sourced from Ellis, Elizabeth.

  • Information sourced from McCormick, Tim.

  • (2000), 'Australia 2000’, Sydney, NSW: Sotheby’s auction catalogue, 08-16.

  • Shaw, George (1792), 'Museum Leveriarum’, London, England.

  • Cook, James (Captain), 'Voyages’, London, England.

See also

  • 'Heritage, Section 7, plate 268 (re: 13 National Library of Australia watercolours by Stone)'.
  • 'The Interior of Sir Ashton Lever's Museum when at Leicester House, London, 30 March 1785 (Australia 2000, Sotheby's auction catalogue, lot 287)'.
  • 'Snake: Muricated Lizard c.1790, watercolour, National Library of Australia (PIC R11207), reproduced NLA News July 1997, p 17'.
  • 'Red-shouldered parroquet 1790, watercolour, National Library of Australia Pictorial Collection, reproduced NLA News January 1993, p 9'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions