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Eurasian Marsh Harrier
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Circus aeruginosus
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CA RBD MSG BW002-400
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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 Eurasian Marsh Harrier from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Europe, Africa, and Asia.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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Manuscript note on back of drawing: British Museum
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Scientific name: Circus aeruginosus
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Accipitres Falco
Leuco-cephalus
Falco capite linea nigrosente [nigrescente]
collo infra occulos ad rostrum protracta
rostro nigro sed in parte superiore circa
nares luteo. Corpore fusco. lineis parvis
in Extremitate Plumarum. sparsim
notato Rectricibus nigracentibus
femoribus vestitis cruribus
nudis flavis. cera deest.
The Bald Buzzard
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Accipitres Falco
Leuco-cephalus [The white-headed falcon]
The falcon with a black lined head,
a neck that is exposed under the eyes to the beak,
a beak that is black, but yellow in the upper part near
the nares; a tawny body, small lines
at the tips of the feathers, irregularly
marked black flight feathers on the tail;
covered thighs, and bare
golden-yellow legs. The cere is absent.
The Bald Buzzard
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Birds Volume 4, Painting 27
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- British Museum (Natural History) (Collector)