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Sarah Stone (c. 1760 – 1844), later known as Sarah Smith, was a British
Stone was the daughter of a fan painter. She worked as a draftsman, natural history and scientific illustrator, and painter between 1777 and 1820. She was commissioned by Sir Ashton Lever in the 1770s to sketch and paint images of objects in his Leverian Museum. which included specimens brought back by British expeditions to Australia, the Americas, Africa and the Far East in the 1780s and 1790s. She exhibited as an "Honorary Exhibitor" at the 
Sarah Stone once created an artwork featuring a rare Heva Tūpāpāʻu funeral costume, collected by Captain Cook during a voyage to
File:Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17708512908).jpg, Snake no. 1
File:Poto Roo in journal of voyage 1790 John White.jpg, Poto Roo, an illustration of '' Potorous tridactylus''
File:Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17708738688).jpg, New Holland creeper, female
A digitized version of White's ''A Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales'' (1790)
A digitized version of George Shaw's ''Museum Leverianum'' (1792-1796)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Sarah 1760s births 1844 deaths Artists from London 19th-century English artists English natural history illustrators English scientific illustrators 19th-century English women artists Australian bird artists
natural history
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illustrator and painter
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. Her works included many studies of specimens brought back to England from expeditions in Australia and the Pacific. Her illustrations are amongst the first studies of many species and are as scientifically significant.
Work
Stone was the daughter of a fan painter. She worked as a draftsman, natural history and scientific illustrator, and painter between 1777 and 1820. She was commissioned by Sir Ashton Lever in the 1770s to sketch and paint images of objects in his Leverian Museum. which included specimens brought back by British expeditions to Australia, the Americas, Africa and the Far East in the 1780s and 1790s. She exhibited as an "Honorary Exhibitor" at the Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its ...
in 1781, 1785 and 1786.
Stone created numerous watercolour paintings of specimens sent by John White, the First Surgeon General of the Australian colony, between 1789 and 1790. These paintings were used to produce engravings for White's ''A Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales'' (1790). Although beautiful and skilfully drawn the drawings were sometimes compromised by the fact that she was working from skins collected in Australia and reconstructed by a taxidermist in London to reproduce an animal or bird that had never been seen.
Her collection of more than a thousand water colours based on specimens from the Leverian Museum were dispersed along with the museum items auctioned in 1806. Some of her paintings were acquired by the Natural History Museum, London while others went into private collections. They may be valuable in resolving some species described by J. F. Gmelin, the specimens of which are now untraceable.
Sarah Stone once created an artwork featuring a rare Heva Tūpāpāʻu funeral costume, collected by Captain Cook during a voyage to Tahiti
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.
Stone's work is held by the British Museum
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and the Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool in Great Britain, and the National Library of Australia
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, and the State Library of New South Wales
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in Australia.
Personal life
On 8 September 1789 Stone married John Langdale Smith.Gallery
Images by Sarah Stone – ''A journal of a voyage to New South Wales''.References
External links
A digitized version of White's ''A Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales'' (1790)
A digitized version of George Shaw's ''Museum Leverianum'' (1792-1796)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Sarah 1760s births 1844 deaths Artists from London 19th-century English artists English natural history illustrators English scientific illustrators 19th-century English women artists Australian bird artists