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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 ( ca. 1745 - 26 de enero de 1771) fue un cuáquero, naturalista, ilustrador botánico y artista de la historia natural escocés. Fue empleado del científico Joseph Banks para explorar con él en la primera expedición de James Cook al Pacífico, en 1768.
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Sydney Parkinson. (1745-1771) The botanical artist who sailed on the Endeavour, with Captain Cook, to South America, Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia. This page is about the artist, his artwork and the story of its publication in Banks's Florilegium.
Sydney Parkinson. 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 was a Scottish artist and draftsman who lived from 1745 until 1771. He was part of James Cook’s ‘Endeavor’ crew on their first voyage to explore the Pacific Ocean. Parkinson signed up as the crew’s principal botanical illustrator, though he captured much more than that.
19 de oct. de 2018 · Sydney Parkinson, Sketch of a Kangaroo, 1770 Parkinson was also the first European artist to set foot on Australian soil, to draw an authentic Australian landscape, to draw eucalypts, and to portray Aboriginals 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.
