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Raccoon
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Common Raccoon
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Procyon lotor
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Procyon lotor
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CA RBD MSG BW002-115
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- Paillou, Peter, approximately 1720-approximately 1790
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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 Common Raccoon from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Europe and North America.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Raccoon (Procyon lotor)
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: Lotor, Ursus 4, Cauda annulata fascia per oculos transversali Linnaea
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Scientific name: Procyon lotor
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Ursus
- Lotor
Ursus cauda annulata, fascia per
occulos [oculos] transversali. L.S.N p.48
Ursus cauda elongata Act. Stock 1747. t 9 f 1.
Mus Indicus alius. gesn. quadr. 197
Vulpi afinis americana Rai quadr 179
Raccon Kalm. it. 2. p. 228.
corpus cinereum, pilis erectis, fer[r]ugineis
apice nigris, unde inspectus umbra nigra
cingitur.
Caput fuscum frons alba facia nigra trans
oculos, in medio inter[r]upta cum linea nigra
perpendiculari interjecta cauda quinque
anulis nigris ornata. LN.S. [sic] p 71. ed. nov.
habitat in America Maritimis.
The Racoon
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Ursus
- Lotor
Ursus with a ringed tail, and a band crossing
through the eyes. L.S.N p.48
Ursus with an elongated tail Act. Stock 1747. t 9 f 1.
Mus Indicus alius. gesn. quadr. 197
It is related to the american fox. Rai quadr 179
Raccon Kalm. it 2. p. 228.
The body is ash-coloured, with erect reddish-brown hair
with black tips, which makes it look as though it is
encircled by a black shadow.
The head is tawny, the forehead is white with a black band across
the eyes, which is broken in the middle by a black line
placed perpendicularly; the tail is embellished
with five black rings. LNS [sic] p 71. ed. nov.
It lives in maritime America.
The Racoon
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Mammals Volume 3, Painting 23