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Angora Goat
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Domestic goat, (Angora) female
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Capra hircus
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Capra hircus var. angorensis
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(approximately 1720-approximately 1790)
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Peter Paillou was born in London into a Huguenot family and was recognised in his own time as an eminent ‘bird painter’. In 1744 he began to paint for Taylor White and worked for him for almost thirty years, painting chiefly birds and mammals. He painted as well for Robert More, Joseph Banks, and for the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Many of his paintings of birds were used as the basis for book illustrations, often engraved by his colleague and fellow Huguenot, Peter Mazell. Paillou was elected to the Society of Artists and in 1763 he exhibited ‘A Piece of Birds, in Watercolours; the Hen of the Wood and Cock of the Red Game’. In 1778, to considerable approval, he also showed a picture of ‘A Horned Owl from Peru’, completely made from feathers.
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Drawing of a female Angora Domestic Goat from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: worldwide.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Angora Goat (Capra hircus var. angorensis)
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Manuscript note on back of drawing: an Hircus altor, Capra 1, sive Capra angolensis Linaei; The Mohair goat from the GalatiaAntiqua I had this from Smyrna
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Scientific name: Capra hircus
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Pecora Capra
No 14. Angorensis
C. Angorensis Lana ad pedes, usque dependet
nivea, sericum provocante camelina dicta,
cornua corta, ad latera protracta, ut ovis hispanica
Auriculae planae lanceolatae declinatae, nec erectae
canaliculatae. L.S.N. ed. 12. p. 95.
Habitat in Angora.
The Mohair Goat.
This Goat or sheep for it dificult to
distinguish which I had presented to me
by Mr Fremeau a very worthy merchant
who had a house in Smyrna but afterwards
came to reside in England & lived at Hackney
they were sent as the Male & female but
differed so little I suspected them to be female.
The Drawing is so exact and agrees so well
with the above description of Linaeus that
it is not to be doubted but it is the animal
he intended to describe. but the preceding
description by the title B. Hircus Angorensis
is of a diferent species. which also came from
Angora. whose hair is long and silky but not
like Wool. it was remarkable that when
one of the Beasts I kept died the other stood
over it till it died also. I thought with no
other Distemper then greif. which I have also
observe to have hapened to some birds.
the silk this produces of a snow white
colour hanging down in long curls to its feet
is a suficient distinction by which it may
be known from all other animals but as it
wants a beard I should be inclined to class it
rather among the sheep then goats. if Linaeus
had nott called it a Goat. it feeds cheifly on
the young branches & bark of the Oak & is
bred in Angora which was by the Antients
called Galatia.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Pecora Capra
No 14. Angorensis
C. Angorensis with snow-white wool that hangs down
all the way to the feet; it produces silk called Camelina (false flax);
with short horns, that are drawn out to the sides, as the Spanish sheep.
The ears are flat, lanceolate, and bent sideways, and neither erect
nor grooved. L.S.N. ed. 12. p. 95.
It lives in Angora.
The Mohair Goat.
This Goat or sheep for it dificult to
distinguish which I had presented to me
by Mr Fremeau a very worthy merchant
who had a house in Smyrna but afterwards
came to reside in England & lived at Hackney
they were sent as the Male & female but
differed so little I suspected them to be female.
The Drawing is so exact and agrees so well
with the above description of Linaeus that
it is not to be doubted but it is the animal
he intended to describe. but the preceding
description by the title B. Hircus Angorensis
is of a diferent species. which also came from
Angora. whose hair is long and silky but not
like Wool. it was remarkable that when
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Mammals Volume 5, Painting 24
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- Freeman (Collector)