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Argali [female]?
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Urial (Mouflon), female
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Ovis orientalis (musimon)
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Ovis ammon
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CA RBD MSG BW002-175
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(approximately 1720-approximately 1790)
Biographical history
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 Mouflon from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Western Europe and Cyprus.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Argali [female]? (Ovis ammon)
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Scientific name: Ovis orientalis (musimon)
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Pecora Capra.
- Bezoartica. L.S.N. p. 96. ed. nov.
C. Cornibus teretibus Arcuatis totis
annulatis, at gula barbata.
Hircus cornibus arcuatis ab imo, ad summum
fere an[n]ulatis. Brison. quad 69. n. 10
Hircus bezoarticus. Aldr. bisculc. 756. Raii quad 80
Capri Cerva Kempf. amoen 399 t. 407. f 2.
Habitat in Persia.
Profert saepe in ventriculo abomaso Bezoar
Orientale.
The Bezoar Goat
This Drawing is from the Beast in the
British Musaeum.
it measured from the top of the head exclusive
of ye horns 5 feet & 3/4 of an inch.
The lenth of the horn from the Root to ye
bending 10 inch 1/2 from these to the tip 5 1/2
the face from the top of the head to ye bottom of ye
chin is 1 ft 5 inches
from the chin to ye bottom of the shoulder
1 foot 2.
from the [nie?] to ye knee 1 ft 3 in
from the knee to ye bottom of ye foot 1 ft 3 in
The length of the body from the breast
to the Tail is 3ft 11 in 1/2.
The height from the Bottom of the back to the Ground is 3ft. 8 inch.
The Collour of a yellow & cream collour
yet the streak of the face & fore part
of the legs is black.
it has a beard under the Chin & on
the sides of his mouth not on the breast
as linaeus mentions.
it is a
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Pecora Capra.
- Bezoartica. L.S.N. p. 96. ed. nov.
C. with rounded, curved horns that are fully
ringed, and a bearded throat.
Hircus with horns curved from the bottom,
and ringed almost to the tip. Brison. quad 69. n. 19
Hircus bezoarticus. Aldr. bisulc. 756. Raii quad 80
Capri Cerva Kempf. amoen 399 t. 407. f 2.
It lives in Persia.
It often carries an Oriental Bezoar in the abomasum stomach compartment.
The Bezoar Goat
This Drawing is from the Beast in the
British Musaeum.
it measured from the top of the head exclusive
of [the] horns 5 feet & 3/4 of an inch.
The lenth of the horn from the Root to [the]
bending 10 inch 1/2 from these to the tip 5 1/2
the face from the top of the head to [the] bottom of [the]
chin is 1 ft 5 inches from the chin to ye bottom of the shoulder
1 foot 2.
from the [nie?] to ye knee 1 ft 3 in
from the knee to ye bottom of ye foot 1 ft 3 in
The length of the body from the breast
to the Tail is 3ft 11 in 1/2.
The height from the Bottom of the back to the Ground is 3ft. 8 inch.
The Collour of a yellow & cream collour
yet the streak of the face & fore part
of the legs is black.
it has a beard under the Chin & on
the sides of his mouth not on the breast
as linaeus mentions.
it is a
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Mammals Volume 5, Painting 20