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Kittiwake Gull ad.
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Black-legged Kittiwake, adult
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Rissa tridactyla
Title statements of responsibility
Charles Collins Fect. 1738;
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- Source of title proper: Caption title.
- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Rissa tridactyla
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CA RBD MSG BW002-802
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(1680-1744)
Biographical history
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 an adult Black-legged Kittiwake from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: North America, Europe, and the Pacific coast of Asia].
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Kittiwake Gull ad. (Rissa tridactyla) Charles Collins Fect. 1738;
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: Laru Cinereus minor The Common Sea Mull W. 345
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Scientific name: Rissa tridactyla
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Larus Cinereus
minor. Will. orn. p. 345
The
Comon Sea Mull
No. 33
Aves Anseres Larus
5 Naevius
Larus albus, dorso cinereo, tectricibus
nigris. L.S N. 225 ed. nov.
Loras [Larus] albo cinereus torque cinereo Aldr. orn
- p. 73. t 77. Will orn 266 t. 66.
Gavia Cinerea naevia Briss. av. 6 p 285. t 17 f 2
habitat in Mari Europaeo.
Rostrum nigrum, Pedes Olivacei
Penna extima Rectricum tota alba est
No. 33.
Accompanying material
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Larus Cinereus
minor. Will. orn. p. 345
The
Comon Sea Mull
No. 33
Aves Anseres Larus
5 Naevius
Larus albus [The white...], with an ash-coloured back, and black
covert feathers. L.S.N. 225 ed. nov.
Loras [Larus] albo cinereus [The white and ash-coloured...] with an ash-coloured collar. Aldr. orn
- p. 73. t 77. Will orn 266 t. 66.
Gavia Cinerea naevia Briss. av. 6 p 285. t 17 f 2
It lives on the sea in Europe.
The beak is black, the feet are olive-coloured,
and the outermost flight feather on the tail is fully white.
No. 33.
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Birds Volume 14, Painting 33