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Kittiwake Gull imm.
Black-legged Kittiwake, first winter
Rissa tridactyla
Charles Collins Fect. 1738;
Item
1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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.’
Drawing of a Black-legged Kittiwake in its first winter from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: North America, Europe, and the Pacific coast of Asia].
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Kittiwake Gull imm. (Rissa tridactyla) Charles Collins Fect. 1738;
Manuscript note on back of drawing: The Winter Mew called in Cambridgeshire the Cody-moody. Larus fuses sive Hibernus. W. 350.
Scientific name: Rissa tridactyla
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Anseres Larus
2 Tridactylus
Larus. Albicans dorso canescente,
rectricibus excepto extimo nigris,
pedibus tridactylis.
L.S.N. p. 136
habitat in Europa Septentrionali
The
Ash coloured Gull of Bellonius
called in Cornwall the
Tarrock. Will. orn. p.346
No. 32.
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Anseres Larus
2 Tridactylus
Larus. It is white with a greyish back,
black flight feathers on the tail, except the outermost feathers, and three-toed feet.
L.S.N. p. 136
It lives in Northern Europe.
The
Ash coloured Gull of Bellonius
called in Cornwall the
Tarrock. Will. orn. p.346
No. 32.