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Eurasian Tawny Owl
Strix aluco
Item
1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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.’
Drawing of a Eurasian Tawny Owl from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distrubtion: Europe and Asia. Attributed to Collins, Charles].
The Common Ivy Owl Strix W. 102
Scientific name: Strix aluco
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Stridula
9 Strix capite levi, corpore ferrugineo
remige tertia longiore. L.S.N. p.93
Habitat in Europa
The Ivy Owl
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Stridula
9 Strix with a smooth [earless] head, reddish-brown body,
and with the third flight feather on the wing longer [than the rest]. L.S.N. p.93
It lives in Europe.
The Ivy Owl