WHITE, John (1756 – 1832)
1756 – 1832
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Thomas Watling (1762-c.1814) · auction.gorringes.co.uk · Public domain
1790 CE
#7366
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales with sixty five plates of non descript. animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions
This work described many Australian species for the first time. It includes natural history illustrations after watercolor paintings by Sarah Stone. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link
1793 CE–1795 CE
#12951
A specimen of the botany of New Holland
The first published book on the flora of Australia, issued by Sowerby in four parts between 1793 and 1795. It included 16 hand-colored plates reproducing paintings by Sowerby, mostly based on sketches by John White, a…