Sarah Stone’s Unseen Worlds: A Rare Collection of 18th Century Ornithological Watercolours

Sarah Stone earned fame in her own day for her watercolors of natural history specimens, many of them painted at Sir Ashton Lever‘s celebrated museum in London. Her paintings are now valued as both art and scientific record, but they are rare in private hands.

This book is built around 23 ornithological watercolors that had stayed out of sight in the estate of one of the artist’s descendants until Craig Finch of Finch and Co discovered them. The opening chapters introduce Stone, her career and her technique; the rest of the book presents the birds one by one in full-page color plates with commentary.

The book is written by the author and artist Errol Fuller with Craig Finch. The watercolors were exhibited by Finch and Co in New York during Master Drawings New York in early 2026.

A beautiful book for collectors of natural history art, bird lovers and anyone interested in women artists of the eighteenth century.