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Dorcas Gazelle [male]
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Dorcas Gazelle
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Gazella dorcas
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Gazella dorcas
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CA RBD MSG BW002-155
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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 Dorcas Gazelle from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: North Africa, West Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Dorcas Gazelle [male] (Gazella dorcas)
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Manuscript note on back of drawing: tripoli
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Scientific name: Gazella dorcas
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Pecora Gazella
Dorcas.
Gazella africana, cornibus brevioribus
ab imo ad summum fere anulatis & circa
medium inflexis Raii quadr. 80.
Algazel ex Africa Hern. mex. 893.
Dorcas. 10 Capra teretibus perfecte
annulatis recurvatis contortis
L.S.N. ed. 12o. p. 96. n. 10.
Habitat in Africa Tripoli mexico
cornua e fronte inter occulos, apice arcuata
The african Antilope.
Mammalia Pecora Capra
10 Dorcas
C. Cornibus teretibus arcuatis perfecte
anulatis recurvatis cortortis [contortis]. L.S.N. 96
Gazella africana, cornibus brevioribus
circa medium inflexis. Raii quad. 80
Algazell ex Africa Hern. mex. 893.
habitat in africa, mexico.
cornua e fronte inter inter [sic] oculos
apice arcuata.
The African Antelope.
This Goat has only 2 Nostrils
there fore differs totally from
the Antelope
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Pecora Gazella
Dorcas.
Gazella africana, with very short horns
completey ringed from the lowest point to the tip and
curved around the middle. Raii quadr. 80.
Algazel ex Africa Hern. mex. 893.
Dorcas. 10 Capra with rounded, completely
ringed, curved back, and twisted [horns].
L.S.N. ed. 12o. p. 96. n. 10.
It lives in African Tripoli and Mexico.
The horns are curved from the forehead between the eyes to the tip.
The african Antilope.
Mammalia Pecora Capra
10 Dorcas
C. with rounded, curved horns, which are completely
ringed, curved back, and twisted. L.S.N. 96
Gazella africana, with very short horns
curved around the middle. Raii quad. 80
Algazell ex Africa Hern. mex. 893.
It lives in Africa and Mexico.
The horns are arched from the forehead between the eyes
to the tip.
The African Antelope.
This Goat has only 2 Nostrils
there fore differs totally from
the Antelope
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Mammals Volume 4, Painting 34