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Harlequin Duck [male]
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Harlequin Duck
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Histrionicus histrionicus
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Cha. Collins Fect. Janry 1741
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Histrionicus histrionicus
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CA RBD MSG BW002-885
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(1680-1744)
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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.’
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Drawing of a Harlequin Duck from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Western Canada, Alaska, and Northern Quebec].
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Manuscript note on front of drawing: Harlequin Duck [male] (Histrionicus histrionicus) Cha. Collins Fect. Janry 1741;
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: This from Newfoundland the label was made in Lond. This bird is undescribed unless 'tis the Scaup W. 365 & that description is too imperfect to form a judgment from.
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Scientific name: Histrionicus histrionicus
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Histrionica
30 Anas fusca albo, caeruleoq[ue] varia;
auribus, Temporibus linea gemina,
colari fasciaq[ue] pectorali albis.
Habitat in America. L.S.N p. 127
The Harlequin Duck
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Histrionica
30 Anas variegated tawny, white, and blue;
with twin lines on the ears and temples,
a white collar, and a white band on the breast.
It lives in America. L.S.N. p. 127
The Harlequin Duck
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Birds Volume 16, Painting 25