Visions of an Australia that isn’t coming back. Plates from the 1790 work “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.” No koala, though. I was hoping for koalas but I guess he didn’t see any. Written by John White with illustrations by Sarah Stone. Printed for J. Debrett in London.

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Cassowary of New South Wales. London, published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 154 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n153/mode/1up
Blue Bellied Parrot. London, published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 170 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n170/mode/1up
The Banksia serrata in Fruit. London, published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 285 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n285/mode/1up
The Tea Tree of New South Wales. London, published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 301 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n300/mode/1up
The White Fulica.. London, published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 314 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n314/mode/1up
1. The Skinc-formed Lizard. 2. Eggs. 3. The Egg as broken. 4. The Young. London, published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 325 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n324/mode/1up
1. Snake. 2. Muricated Lizard. London, published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 325 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n328/mode/1up
The Varigated Lizard. published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 351 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n351/mode/1up
1. Large Scolopendra. 2. Spider. 3. Crab. 4. Caterpillar. published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 376 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n376/mode/1up
1. Cyprinaceous Labrus. 2. The Hippocampus or Sea Horse. published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 386 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n386/mode/1up
A Kangaroo. published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 402 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n402/mode/1up
Wha-Tapoua-Roo. published December 29, 1789, by J. Debrett. Page 412 of the 1790 work 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. John White, author. Sarah Stone, illustrator. Collections of the Harvard University Botany Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/journalofvoyaget1790whit/page/n412/mode/1up 

John White is significant to New South Wales as the Chief Surgeon of the First Fleet and the colony’s first Surgeon-General. Sarah Stone was a well-regarded natural history illustrator who died in 1844.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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