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Harlquin Duck [female]
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Harlequin Duck
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Histrionicus histrionicus
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- Source of title proper: Caption title.
- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Histrionicus histrionicus
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CA RBD MSG BW002-886
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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 Harlequin Duck from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Western Canada, Alaska, and Northern Quebec.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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Manuscript note on front of drawing: Harlquin Duck [female] (Histrionicus histrionicus)
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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: Minuta
- Anas grisea, auribus Albis,
Remigibus primoribus nigracantibus [nigricantibus] L. 127
Anas canadensis minor Fuscus. Edw. 157
Habitat in Canada. Parva admodum
tota grisea. Punctum album ad aures utrinq[ue]
an prioris Faemina
The small Brown Canada Duck - if the Female of ye former
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Minuta
- Anas grisea [The grey...] with white ears,
and black primary wing feathers. L. 127
Anas canadensis minor Fuscus [The lesser tawny Canadian duck]. Edw. 157
It lives in Canada. It is very small
and entirely grey. It is spotted white on either side up to the ears
if the female of the former.
The small Brown Canada Duck - if the Female of ye former
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Birds Volume 16, Painting 26