Title page notes by Casey Wood
- CA RBD Gwillim-2-a
- Item
- [1924?]
Part of Gwillim Collection
Title page notes by Casey Wood
Part of Gwillim Collection
Title page notes by Casey Wood
Part of Gwillim Collection
Small paper mounted on centre of page with black ink cursive writing that reads, "Drawings by Lady Gwillim wife of Chief Justice of Madras in 1801/2 [?] - 5." Blue ink stamp below writing reads, "Dr. Casey Wood, Author's Club, 2. Whitehall Court, London, England."
Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus)
Part of Gwillim Collection
Mounted painting with full depiction of a pale-colored buzzard, with partial background of rocks and plants. Inscriptions below the painting read: "Smaller White Scavenger Vulture (Neophron ginginianus)" at bottom centre, and "Neophron ginginianus" in lower left corner.
Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807
Black-headed ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus)
Part of Gwillim Collection
Framed painting of a bird with white body, black neck, head, and legs, standing on rock by water. Full and close background featuring plants with hanging, full pods.
Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807
Crested serpent-eagle (Spilornis cheela)
Part of Gwillim Collection
Framed painting of a tall eagle with brown back and speckled white belly, perched on flat rock with detailed plant at the right bearing red fruit (ivy gourd), with a full landscape background.
Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807
Bar-headed goose (Anser indicus)
Part of Gwillim Collection
Mounted painting of a white goose with two black bars on the back of head, standing by the water with wood and foliage, with a full landscape background with temples in the far left. Inscription below painting reads, "Bar-headed goose (anser indicus)." Another in lower right corner reads, "Anas."
Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807
Brown-headed gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus)
Part of Gwillim Collection
Mounted painting of a white gull with brownish-gray head, red beak, and a few dark tail feathers, standing on flat ground with hills and water in the background. Inscription below painting in pencil and struck through in lower right corner reads, "Larus ridibundus."
Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807
Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus)
Part of Gwillim Collection
Mounted painting of a pair of birds, one brown and spotted, the other dark brown and black (with beak open), perched on a branch over a river with dense foliage in the left background and flat ground with palms and a building in the right background. Inscription below painting reads, "Koels [with male and female glyphs] (eudynamys honorata)."
Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807
Lesser florikan (Sypheotides indicus)
Part of Gwillim Collection
Mounted painting of a small, spotted brown tall and thin bird, standing on a round piece of ground with a few bits of grass. Inscription below the painting reads, "lesser florikan or Likh [female gylph] (sypheotis aurite)."
Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807
Lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus)
Part of Gwillim Collection
Mounted painting of a mostly white gull with light grey back and wings, no background. Inscription below painting reads, "Dark-backed herring gull (winter) (larus affinis)."
Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807