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Little Auk
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Dovekie, Little Auk
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Alle alle
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Cha. Collins Fect. March 1742;
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Alle alle
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CA RBD MSG BW002-829
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(1680-1744)
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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 a Dovekie--also known as a Little Auk--from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Northeastern North America, Western Europe, and Northern Europe].
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Little Auk (Alle alle) Cha. Collins Fect. March 1742;
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: The small black & White Diver with a short sharp pointed Bill W. p. 343. It has no back toe, in the hole resembles the Penguin except the Bill; no back toe
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Scientific name: Alle alle
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Anseres Alca.
Alle.
- Alca. rostro laevi conico, abdomine
faciaque alarum alba pedibus
Nigris. L.S.N. p. 131
Habitat in Europae, Americae arcticae
oceano.
The lesser or shot bill'd
Greenland Dove
No 13
Accompanying material
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Anseres Alca.
Alle.
- Alca. with a smooth conical beak, a white abdomen and
a white band on the wings, and black
feet. L.S.N. p. 131
It lives on the ocean in Europe and arctic
America.
The lesser or sho[r]t bill[e]d
Greenland Dove
No 13
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Birds Volume 15, Painting 13