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Golden Eagle
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Aquila chrysaetos
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CA RBD MSG BW002-364
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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 Golden Eagle from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: North America, Europe, Central and Northeastern Asia, and North Africa.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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Manuscript note on back of drawing: Crysaetos Falco 2d Linaei 2 if the Golden Eagle described by Will p. 54 a bald eagle of the sun from the River Nile in Egypt
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Scientific name: Aquila chrysaetos
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Melanura
Falco cera pedibusque semilanatis luteis, corpore
supra ferrugineo subtus nigro, femo-
ribus ferrugineis.
Rostrum nigrum. Cera lutea circa-
gingivas protracta. Tota avis supra
ferruginea subtus nigra. Alae ferru-
ginea: remigibus primariis nigricantibus.
Cauda alis longior, nigra. Femora
ferruginea. Pedes seminudi, saturate
crocei. Ungues nigri
Habitat in Aegypto, prope Nilum
Blackbreasted Eagle
Aquila Egyptica
Aquila cera pedibusq[ue] luteis rostro Nigro. Corpore
parte superiore fusca, inferiore Nigra
magnitudine Excedat meleagrem
Habitat in Egypto
The Black breasted Eagle
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Melanura
Falco with a yellow cere and yellow semi-woollen feet, a body that is reddish-brown on top and black underneath,
and reddish-brown thighs.
The beak is black. The cere and exposed gums
are yellow. The whole bird is
reddish-brown on top and black underneath. The wings are reddish-brown: with black primary feathers.
The tail is longer than the wings, and black. The thighs
are reddish-brown. The feet are semi-bare,
and saffron-yellow. The nails are black.
It lives in Egypt, near the Nile.
Blackbreasted Eagle
Aquila Egyptica [The Egyptian Eagle]
The eagle with a yellow cere and feet, a black beak, and a body
that is tawny on top, and black underneath;
It is larger than the guinea-hen.
It lives in Egypt.
The Black breasted Eagle
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Birds Volume 3, Painting 26