Sarah Stone (artist)

[1] She was commissioned by Sir Ashton Lever in the 1770s to sketch and paint images of objects in his Leverian Museum.

[4] which included specimens brought back by British expeditions to Australia, the Americas, Africa and the Far East in the 1780s and 1790s.

[1] Stone created numerous watercolour paintings of specimens sent by John White, the First Surgeon General of the Australian colony, between 1789 and 1790.

[6][7] 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.

[8] Sarah Stone once created an artwork featuring a rare Heva Tūpāpāʻu funeral costume, collected by Captain Cook during a voyage to Tahiti.