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Black-headed Godwit
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Black-tailed Godwit, female
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Limosa limosa
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P. Paillou Fect april 1745;
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- Source of title proper: Caption title.
- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Limosa limosa
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CA RBD MSG BW002-762
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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 Black-tailed Godwit from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the East coast of North America].
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Black-headed Godwit (Limosa limosa) P. Paillou Fect april 1745;
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: RM I supose this is [the] Godwit yarwhelp or Stone Plover described by W. p. 292 or 293 but whether a variety of age or sex occasions the diference from his description
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Scientific name: Limosa limosa
Accompanying material
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Accompanying material
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aegocephala
Scolopax rostro recto, pedibus
virescentibus, capite colloq[ue]
ruffescentibus, remigibus
tribus nigris basi albis. L.S.N. p147
Habitat in Europa
The Godwit.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aegocephala
Scolopax with a straight beak, green feet,
reddish head and neck, and
three black flight feathers on the wings
that are white at the base. L.S.N. p147
It lives in Europe.
The Godwit.
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Volume number
Birds Volume 13, Painting 42