- CA RBD MSG BW003-32
- Item
- approximately 1811
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of two murre eggs, with the caption: "Genus Uria. Colymbus Linn. Uria Troile. Varieties in Eggs of the Foolish Guillemot."
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of two murre eggs, with the caption: "Genus Uria. Colymbus Linn. Uria Troile. Varieties in Eggs of the Foolish Guillemot."
Green and red bird on flowering branch
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration featuring a green bird with reddish back, possibly a type of bee eater with its elongated central tail feathers. Branch has white blossoms. No caption. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of a green bird with red head, white throat, and dark tailfeathers, perched on a branch. No caption. Figure has been cut out and pasted on sheet.
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of leaf with engraved illustrations of lizard and small bird pasted on. Background details are drawn in in pencil.
Long-tailed Titmouse (Aegithalos caudatus)
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of a long-tailed tit, perched on a branch with a nest and insects. A pencil caption by Henry Mousley identifies the bird. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.
Nests of the Baya with the Mahudavi Creeper
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of colour illustration of hoopoe perched on a Madhavi lata, or rangoon creeper, with caption in contemporary hand. Additional later pencil notes provide the additional identification "Baya Weaver Bird (Ploceus baya)" and indicate that the image corresponds to Forbes's Oriental Memoirs, 1813, volume 1, page 48.
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of colour illustration of ruffed bustard, with note: "A beautiful Variety of the Otis Tarda, 1811." Additional inscription in pencil underneath includes the scientific name: "Chlamydotis undulata undulata."
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of colour illustration of a red-crested cardinal (Brazilian cardinal) perched on a branch with white and pink blossoms, alongside pale coloured butterfly. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of leaf with engraved illustration of scorpion pasted on. Background details are drawn in in pencil, with branch coloured in. Later caption in Casey Woods's hand reads: "The drawing in this portfolio are probably those made to illustrate Forbes' 'Oriental Memoirs'."
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of a seagull against a partial landscape of a rock and plants. No caption. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet.