Drawing of a Barbary Macaque from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Northern Algeria, Morocco, and Gibraltar.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
Paillou, Peter, approximately 1720-approximately 1790
Mounted painting with a life-sized bust (head, neck, shoulders) study of a vulture on otherwise blank page. Inscription below the painting reads: "Black, King, or Pondicherry Vulture (Otogyps calvus)."
Print of an etching with stone arches in the background, and friezes with lions in the foreground. Includes human figures in the fore and background, some labouring, some bound as prisoners.
Drawing of a Barbary Macaque from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Northern Algeria, Morocco, and Gibraltar.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
Paillou, Peter, approximately 1720-approximately 1790
Drawing of a Hamadryas Baboon from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
Paillou, Peter, approximately 1720-approximately 1790
Two mounted drawings of a vulture affixed to a single page. Upper image is a small painting of the bird, lower is a life-sized bust portrait of the bird with a rough sketch of the whole bird in upper right corner. The lower painting also includes some illegible pencil notes in the bottom left, probably relating to the measurements of the bird. Inscription beneath the lower painting reads: "Indian long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus)."
Print of an etching with stone pillars, staircases, and walkways, with a drawbridge suspended near the centre. Some small figures on stairs and bridges.
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.