dog

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Dingo
English JS Main: 
dog
English: 
The drawing appears to be an almost exact copy of the mammal named as the "Dog of New South Wales" in John White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales (1790), where it is described by Dr. John Hunter but not given a scientific name, and illustrated with an engraving after an original by Mortimer (plate 57). The mammal has more recently been identified by John Calaby in Wheeler and Smith (1988) as the Dingo Canis familiaris dingo. Calaby states that the original scientific drawing of the dingo is based on the drawing reproduced in White's Journal. The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning. dingo
Category: 
fauna: mammals
Sub-category: 
dog
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
148
Line: 
155
Respelt: 
di-ngu
Part of speech: 
noun
Source Details: 
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp. -------------
Comment: 
Banks Ms34: 52: Artist Anonymous