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Sydney Parkinson - self-portrait. Sydney Parkinson (c. 1745 – 26 January 1771) was a Scottish botanical illustrator and natural history artist. He was the first European artist to visit Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti. Parkinson was the first Quaker to visit New Zealand.
Sydney Parkinson (Escócia, 1745 — Oceano Índico, 26 de janeiro de 1771) foi um botânico escocês. Parkinson é a abreviatura padrão usada para indicar Sydney Parkinson como autoridade na descrição e classificação científica de um nome botânico .
Learn about the life and work of Sydney Parkinson, the botanical artist who accompanied Joseph Banks on Captain Cook's voyages to South America, Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia. Find out how he produced and published his drawings and paintings of plants, landscapes and Aboriginals, and what happened to them after his death.
The artist’s impressions. Despite his early death, Sydney Parkinson made a great contribution to the records of the Endeavour voyage, being the first European artist to create drawings of Australia’s indigenous people, as well as Australian landscapes, from direct observation.
Sydney Parkinson made over 1,000 drawings during the voyage and these, along with his observations, have proved invaluable to the study of the natural history and anthropology of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific in the eighteenth century.
Artist (Painter) Sydney Parkinson was a natural history and topographical painter. Joseph Banks took him on Cook's Endeavour voyage to the Pacific (1768-71) where he was a natural-history draughtsman. Parkinson died of fever and dysentery at sea in 1771. He was only twenty-six. Biography (859 words)
2 de nov. de 2023 · Scottish natural history artist Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) was employed by Joseph Banks to illustrate many specimens gathered during the voyage of HMS Endeavour. Of Parkinson's 925 plant illustrations, 676 were unfinished. Nodder, Frederick Polydore.
