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Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807
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Black stork (Ciconia nigra)

Framed painting of a tall stork with white underbelly, black back, and dark, iridescent neck and head. Full background with perspective, featuring water on the left and rocks, hill, and tree on the right.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Black-headed cuckooshrike (Lalage melanoptera)

Painting of a small grey bird with darker wings and tail, small stripes of white and black on chest. Perched on branch leading into water with some foliage on the nearby bank. Inscription, "Lanius," firmly pencilled in lower right corner.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Black-headed cuckooshrike (Lalage melanoptera)

Painting of a small grey male bird with black head, darker edges on wings and tail. Perched on a lightly sketched branch, no other background. Inscription at bottom centre reads, "? Magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis)."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Black-headed ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus)

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

Black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)

A small, very long-legged female bird with white head and neck, and black wings and body. Tall reeds in the left foreground, three other birds in the left background on the other side of a river with mountains and trees in the far distance. Inscription at bottom centre reads, "black-winged stilt (Himantopus Canidus)."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Blue-faced Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus viridirostris)

Painting of a dark bird with bright teal beak, white and grey bib, yellow belly, dark/teal-tinted wings, back, and tail (with white tips). No background other than some grey shading at feet. Inscription at bottom centre reads, "Small green-billed malkoha (Rhopodytes viridirostris)." A few very lightly pencilled notes in lower left hand corner.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Bonelli's eagle (Aquila fasciata)

Framed painting of an eagle with light coloured head, chest, and belly, with wings of gradient shades of brown, standing on a rock with full leaves behind it. Pencilled notes and measurements in lower left corner: "N. Bonelli (33)" (remainder of inscription too faint to read).

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Bonelli's eagle (Aquila fasciata)

Mounted painting of a brown and white eagle actively crouched on a rocky cliff, overlooking water and a distant background with very small pagoda, copse of palms, and ship in water. Inscriptions below the painting read, "Bonelli's eagle (intermediate plumage) Hieraaetus fasciatus" at bottom center, and then slightly to right of that, "? Hieraaetus fasciatus fasciatus Bonelli's eagle (intermediate plumage) (191 – K.S.)."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Booted eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)

Mounted painting of a beige eagle with darker back and tail feathers, perched on wood with some fronds/foliage. Inscription in lower right corner reads, "Hieraaetus pennatus Booted Eagle (K.S.192)" with a question mark and a male symbol.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus)

Framed portrait of a raptor in full landscape. Raptor is red with white head, foreground is full of foliage, three worshipful figures at right in full background.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

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