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Chamois [female]
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Alpine Chamois
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Rupicapra rupicapra
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Rupicapra rupicapra
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CA RBD MSG BW002-164
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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 an Alpine Chamois from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Europe and New Zealand.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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Small stain on right edge.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Chamois [female] (Rupicapra rupicapra)
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: chamois
General note
Scientific name: Rupicapra rupicapra
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Pecora Capra
4 Rupi capra. L.S.N. p. 95. nov. ed.
C. Cornibus erectis uncinatis.
Rupicapra Bell. itin. 57. 126. Olear. mus. t. 9 f.3
Gesn. quad. 140. Aldr. bisulc. 727. Dodart act. 225
Scheuchz. alp. 155. Wagn. helv. 183. Raii Quad. 78
Habitat in Alpibus Helvicis [Helveticis] summis inaccessis
ac etiam in Corsica Insula.
Descriptio
Corpus ruffo-fuscum, sed album fronte,
vertice gula auribus intus. Cauda etiam subtus
nigricans labium superius subfissum.
Aegagropila hujus a radice Athamanti Mei
Kram austr. 320 The Chamois goat
[164?]
Mammalia Pecora Capra
Rupi Capra Femina.
The Female rock Goat
This was brought with the Male from Corsica 1769
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Pecora Capra
4 Rupi capra. L.S.N. p. 95. nov. ed.
C. with erect hooked horns.
Rupicapra Bell. it in. 57. 126. Olear. mus. t. 9 f.3
Gesn. quad. 140. Aldr. bisulc. 727. Dodart act. 225
Scheuchz. alp. 155. Wagn. helv. 183. Raii Quad. 78
It lives on the inaccessible summits of the Swiss Alps
and also on the island of Corsica.
Description
The body is tawny-reddish, but with a white forehead,
crown, throat, and inside of the ears. The tail is
black underneath, and the upper lip is somewhat cleft.
This animal's Aegagropila is from the root of the Athamanta
Meum.
Kram austr. 320 The Chamois goat
Mammalia Pecora Capra
Rupi Capra, the female.
The Female rock Goat
This was brought with the Male from Corsica 1769
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Mammals Volume 5, Painting 9