Navy Surveyor – Through the Sketchbook

The watercolor sketches of plants, fish, and birds are drawn on location in this sketchbook by John Hunter a Navy surveyor and chart maker. Hunter’s sketchbook contains 100 watercolors of the plants, birds, and fish, of New South Wales (Australia). 1788-1790.

Watercolor.

Artist: John Hunter (1737-1821)

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.