McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Black-and-Gold Howler, Black Howler Monkey, female
General material designation
Parallel title
Other title information
Alouatta caraya
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on 2019 species identification.
Level of description
Item
Repository
Reference code
CA RBD MSG BW002-013
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Physical description area
Physical description
1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
(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.
Custodial history
Scope and content
Drawing of a Black-and-Gold Howler monkey and a female Black Howler monkey from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Associated materials
Accruals
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: 14 Seneculus
General note
Scientific name: Alouatta caraya
Accompanying material
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Accompanying material
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Primates Simia Cercopithecus
- Seniculus
cercopithecus barbatus saturate spadiceus
Briss. quadr. 206.
Simia caudata barbata rufa, cauda prehensili
Habitat Carthagenae in sylvis ad fluvium
transeuntes ex arboribus voce ingrata, rauca admodum
simul clamosa eminusq[ue] audienda salutens; vix
adspici se sinunt quin illico clament victicant
Musae Fructibus. D. Jacquin.
Corpus mediocre colore conformi rubri. Os
hominis instar in anteriore facie parte mento
propendente satis magno ut in homine.
Accompanying material
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Primates Simia Cercopithecus
- Seniculus
The rich light brown bearded cercopithecus.
Briss. quadr. 206.
Simia: tailed, bearded, and red with a prehensile tail.
It lives in Carthage in forests near rivers
calling noisily from the trees to those crossing [the rivers] all at the same time with an unpleasant voice that is very hoarse, and so that they can be heard at a distance; they hardly allow themselves to be seen but call out and feed in that place.
Musae Fructibus D. Jacquin.
The body is medium sized and red-like in colour. The mouth
resembles that of a human, with a fairly large chin, as in a human, hanging down in the lower part of the face.
Alternative identifier(s)
Volume number
Mammals Volume 1, Painting 13