Western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
- CA RBD Gwillim-1-061
- Item
- [between 1801 and 1807?]
Part of Gwillim Collection
Full scale painting of a brown raptor with lighter face, chest, and tail feathers. Branch perch and some background very vaguely and lightly sketched out, with much smaller bird drawn on another branch in the bottom right. Inscription below painting include, "Circus cinereus (52)," faintly pencilled in lower left corner, and pencilled in the centre below the painting, "Marsh Harrier (circus aeruginosus)," "circus aeruginosis vel spilunotus [sp?]," "[KS #41] or [44]."
Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807