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Title proper
Chaffinch [male] & [female].
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Common Chaffinch, male and female
Other title information
Fringilla coelebs
Title statements of responsibility
Charl. Collins Fect. 1736;
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- Source of title proper: Caption title.
- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Fringilla coelebs
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CA RBD MSG BW002-660
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(1680-1744)
Biographical history
Charles Collins was an Irish painter, known for his portraits of animals and still-lifes. He achieved success in England painting exotic birds, game, dogs and dead game still-lifes. He was the painter for Robert Furber’s ‘Twelve Months of Fruit’ (1732). In 1736 he published in collaboration with John Lee a set of 12 large engravings, coloured by hand, of British birds in landscape and garden settings, entitled Icones avium cum nominibus anglicis. He then came to the attention of Taylor White, who engaged him to paint birds from his and others’ collections until 1743. Collins died in 1744, when he was described as ‘Bird Painter to the Royal Society.’
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Scope and content
Drawing of a pair of male and female Common Chaffinches from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and New Zealand].
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Significant foxing.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Chaffinch [male] & [female]. (Fringilla coelebs) Charl. Collins Fect. 1736;
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: The Chafinch Fringilla, Spiza Aristotelis W. p. 253
General note
Scientific name: Fringilla coelebs
Accompanying material
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Accompanying material
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Passeres Fringilla
Coelebs
3 Fringilla artubus nigris remigibus
utrinque albis; tribus primis immaculatis
rectricibus duabus utrinque albis
L.N.S. [sic] p. 179
Fringilla Will. p. 253
The
Chafinch
Accompanying material
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Passeres Fringilla
Coelebs
3 Fringilla with black limbs [wings], and white flight feathers
on the wings in both [sexes]; three unmarked primary feathers
and two white flight feathers on the tail in both [sexes].
L.N.S. [sic] p. 179
Fringilla Will.
p. 253
The
Chafinch
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Volume number
Birds Volume 11, Painting 5