Item 715 - Pratincole

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Pratincole

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Collared Pratincol

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Glareola pratincola

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  • Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Glareola pratincola

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CA RBD MSG BW002-715

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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf

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(approximately 1720-approximately 1790)

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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 a pair of Collared Pratincoles from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: mostly southern Europe (may be found in the United Kingdom and the coast of the North Sea), the Middle East; migrates to Africa and some are found in Asia.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.

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Manuscript note on front of drawing: Pratincole (Glareola pratincola)

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Manuscript note on back of drawing: Hirundo pratensis

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Scientific name: Glareola pratincola

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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.

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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Passeres Hirundo

  1. Praticola.
    Hirundo femoribus seminudis L.S.N.
    lust ed it p. 345
    habitat at litora Europae austrialioris [australioris]
    In Austria Pratis Apricis.
    Descriptio.
    Media quasi inter Hirundes & Grallas.
    Descriptio
    Corpus supra bruneum, subtus album
    magnitudine Turdi, Gulam dilute testaceum
    cingit linea nigra per occulos ad aures
    ducta. Remiges fuscae longae.
    Cauda fusca, longa maxime forsicata [forficata]
    Rostrum nigrum basi coccineum
    pedes plumbei [Kram aut Linguinei
    [Brisson.]
    The Meadow Swallow

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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Passeres Hirundo

  1. Praticola.
    Hirundo with semi-bare thighs L.S.N.
    lust ed it p. 345
    It lives at the seaside in Southern Europe
    and in sunny meadows in Austria.
    Description
    It is of moderate size almost between hirundes [sparrows] and grallae.
    The body is brown on top, and white underneath;
    it is the size of the Turdi [thrush]; the throat is a pale brick-colour
    and ringed with a black line running through the eyes to the ears.
    The flight feathers on the wings are long and tawny.
    The tail is tawny, very long, and scissored.
    The beak is black and scarlet at the base,
    and the feet are lead-coloured. [Kram aut Linguinei
    [Brisson.]
    The Meadow Swallow

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Birds Volume 12, Painting 9

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  • Volume: Birds v.12 (of 16)