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Ornate Hawk Eagle
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Spizaetus ornatus
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CA RBD MSG BW002-361
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(approximately 1720-approximately 1790)
Biographical history
Peter Paillou was born in London into a Huguenot family and was recognised in his own time as an eminent ‘bird painter’. In 1744 he began to paint for Taylor White and worked for him for almost thirty years, painting chiefly birds and mammals. He painted as well for Robert More, Joseph Banks, and for the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Many of his paintings of birds were used as the basis for book illustrations, often engraved by his colleague and fellow Huguenot, Peter Mazell. Paillou was elected to the Society of Artists and in 1763 he exhibited ‘A Piece of Birds, in Watercolours; the Hen of the Wood and Cock of the Red Game’. In 1778, to considerable approval, he also showed a picture of ‘A Horned Owl from Peru’, completely made from feathers.
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Drawing of an Ornate Hawk Eagle from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Central America and South America.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: Urutaurana Brasiliensis Margrav. Will. P. 83 Crested Eagle of Brasil Dr Hunter
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Scientific name: Spizaetus ornatus
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aquila Cristata
Urutaurana Brasiliensium margrav.
v. Descriptio Will. orn. p.63
The Crested Brasilian
Eagle
Cristata
Aquila cera lutea, pedibus lanatis
albidis fusco undulatis, capite subcri-
stato, alis caudaque nigro fasciatis
Rostrum nigrum. Cera lutea. Caput
ad latera glaucum. Vertex fuscum
albo maculatum undulatum, pennis
suberectis postice posterioribus longioribus
cristatum. Corpus supra fusco ni-
gricans, subtus exalbido subaeruginosum
nigro undatum. Cauda Alae fuscae,
fascia in medio nigra, apicesque
remigum nigrae. Cauda alis longior,
cana fasciis tribus nigris. Femora
& Pedes lanata, albida nigro undulata
Digiti lutei Ungues nigri.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aquila Cristata
Urutaurana Brasiliensium margrav.
v. Description in Will. orn. p.63
The Crested Brasilian
Eagle
Cristata
Aquila [The crested eagle] with a yellow cere, and white,
downy feet with tawny ripples; a lesser-crested
head; wings and a tail striped with black,
and a black beak. The cere is yellow. The head is
grey on the sides. The crown is rippled tawny
and white, and crested with feathers
that are somewhat raised up and longer at the rear.
The body is tawny-black on top, and
whitish underneath and rippled with a dark-copper-colour and
black. The wings are tawny,
with a black band in the middle, and the tips
of the flight feathers on the wings are black. The tail is longer than the wings,
it is white with three black bands. The thighs
and feet are downy, and white rippled with black;
The toes are yellow, the nails are black.
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Birds Volume 3, Painting 23
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- Hunter, John, 1728-1793 (Collector)