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Blue-naped parrot
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Tanygnathus lucionensis
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CA RBD MSG BW002-274
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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 Blue-naped parrot from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: the Phillipines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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Manuscript note on front of drawing: Miniaristris Ps. Submacrourus L.S.N.
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Scientific name: Tanygnathus lucionensis
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: miniarostris
Ps. submacrourus viridis, rostro miniato
vertice caeruleo, alis luteo caeruleoque
variegatis.
Magnitudo Ps. Erithaci. Rostrum
sanguineo-miniatum cera albida. Totum corpus
viride, Collum saturatuis [saturatum]. Vertex cyaneo-
caeruleum. Alae virides: Tectrices
humerum caeruleo-nigrae; mediae luteo
marginatae; inferiores quae longiores mar-
gine flavicantes: Remiges intus
nigricantes, extus viridi glaucis
Cauda corpore paulo brevior, cuneiformi,
viridis. Pedes albescentes. Oculorum
circulus cinerascens. Pupilla nigra,
Iride fusca annulo albido crystallino cincta.
Habitat in India orientali.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: miniarostris
Ps. submacrourus viridis [The green...], with a vermilion beak,
blue crown, and yellow and blue spotted wings.
It is the size of the Ps. Erithaci. The beak
is cinnabar-blood-red, the cere is white. The whole body is
green, the neck is richly coloured. The crown is
dark-blue. The wings are green: the covert feathers
on the shoulders are bluish-black; those in the middle are edged
with yellow; [the feathers] underneath, which are longer,
are edged with golden-yellow. The flight feathers on the wings
are black to the inside, and green and grey to the outside.
The tail is a little shorter than the body, it is wedge-shaped,
and green. The feet are white. The orbital ring
is ash-coloured. The pupil is black,
with a tawny iris encircled with a clear white ring.
It lives in eastern India.
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Birds Volume 1, Painting 19