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Herring gull
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Herring Gull
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Larus argentatus
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Cha. Collins Fect. November 1740;
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Larus argentatus
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CA RBD MSG BW002-799
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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 Herring Gull from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: North America, Europe, and Asia].
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Manuscript note on front of drawing: Herring gull (Larus argentatus) Cha. Collins Fect. November 1740;
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: The Herring Gull Larus Cinereus Maximus W. p. 345
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Scientific name: Larus argentatus
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf:
Aves. Anseres Larus
Larus
Rissa
- Larus albus dorso cano, rectricibus
albis totis. pedibus tridactylis.
Brunick orn. 140.
habitat sub Arctoo [Arctos?] in Inslandiae [Islandiae] Christiansol.
Loci digito postici gibbositas exigua
Rostrum flavum Cauda tota Alba
No 30
Larus Cinereus
maximus. Will. orn. p. 345
The
Herring Gull.
No. 30.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf:
Aves Anseres Larus
Larus
Rissa
- Larus albus [The white...] with a greyish back,
fully white flight feathers on the tail, and three-toed feet.
Brunick orn. 140
It lives below the Arctic in Iceland and on Christianso Island.
There is a slight hump on the back toe.
The beak is yellow; the tail is fully white.
No 30
Larus Cinereus
maximus. Will. orn. p. 345
The
Herring Gull.
No. 30.
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Birds Volume 14, Painting 30