Selected Images from the Collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library
[Portrait of William Swainson engaged in ornithological research. 1836?]
[Portrait of William Swainson engaged in ornithological research. 1836?]
William Swainson seated at a table, leaning on a writing desk, writing with a quill pen, a dead parrot in front of him. He appears to be between his twenties and his forties and the painting must have been completed in London, before he came to New Zealand. Drawings & Prints Collection, Reference No. G-499 Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand