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Rainbow Lorikeet
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Trichoglossus moluccanus
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CA RBD MSG BW002-301
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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 Rainbow Lorikeet from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Australia and Indonesia.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Iris, L.S.N. The painted Lory from the East Indies
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Scientific name: Trichoglossus moluccanus
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Iris
Ps. Br. coccineus, alis viridibus
maculis flavis, pectore rostroque flavis,
occipite cyaneo.
Rostrum flavum; Cera nigricans. Caput
supra antice nigricans postice
cyaneum. Circulus oculorum nigricans
Iris lutea. Collum coccineum. Pectus
flavum. Dorsum coccineum. Alae
virides: maculis flavis; Humeris caerulei Cauda corpore
brevior, truncata, coccinea, apice viridi.
Pedes nigricantes. Femora caerulea.
Habitat in India orientali
The painted Lory.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Iris
Ps. Br. coccineus, [The scarlet...] with green wings
with golden-yellow patches, a golden-yellow breast and beak,
and a blue hindead.
The beak is golden-yellow; The cere is black. The top of the head
is black at the front and blue at the back.
The eye ring is black
the iris is yellow. The neck is scarlet. The breast
is golden-yellow. The back is scarlet. The wings
are green: with yellow patches; the shoulders are blue. The tail is shorter than the body; it [the tail] is short, scarlet, and the tip is green.
The feet are black. The thighs are blue.
It lives in East India
The painted Lory.
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Birds Volume 1, Painting 45