Manuscript note on front of drawing: Green finch (Chloris chloris) Cha. Collins Fect. Oct.er 1743;
Manuscript note on back of drawing: the Green Finch
Scientific name: Chloris chloris
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.’
Published
Title from Mousley: Chloris chloris
Caption title.
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Passeres Loxia
Cloris
27 Loxia flavicanti-virens remigibus
primoribus antice luteis, rectricibus
lateralibus quatuor basi luteis. L.N.S. [sic] p.174
The
Green-finch
Will p. 248
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Passeres Loxia
Cloris
27 Loxia flavicanti-virens [The greenish-golden-yellow...] with yellow foremost primary wing feathers, and four flight feathers on the sides of the tail that are yellow at the base. L.N.S. [sic] p.174
The
Green-finch
Will p. 248
Drawing of a pair of European Greenfinches from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, Australia, and New Zealand].
Significant foxing.