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Red-billed Toucan
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White-throated Toucan
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Ramphastos tucanus
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Rhamphastos erythrorhynchus
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CA RBD MSG BW002-312
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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 a White-throated Toucan from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: South America.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Red-billed Toucan (Rhamphastos erythrorhynchus)
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: Toucan No. 1; Rhampastos L.S.N. 103 Tucanus Rhaphanos rostro rubro carina obtusa alba maxilla versus basia fascia nigro; from the Grenadas 1764
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Scientific name: Ramphastos tucanus
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Ramphastos
Tucanus
Ramphastos rostro rubro: carina obtuso albo.
Habitat in America Meridionali
Maxillae versus basin fasia [fascia] Nigra
The Red Beaked Toucan
from the Island of ye Granades
Ramphastos Tucanus.
R. rostro rubro: carina obtusa alba, corpore
nigro gula flavescente fascia anoque san-
guineis, uropygio flavo.
Linn: Syst: Naturae. p.103.2.
Caput & Collum supra nigra ut & Dorsum,
Alae, Cauda & Abdomen. Gula & Collum subtus
exalbido flavescentia, fascia in pectore san-
guinea. Anus croceo-sanguineus. Uropygium
flavum. Rectrices laterales breviores.
Habitat in Insulis Granadis.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Ramphastos
Tucanus
The toucan with a red beak and dull white rhamphotheca.
It lives in South America.
There is a black band near the base of the upper mandible.
The Red Beaked Toucan
from the Island of [the] Granades
Ramphastos Tucanus
R. with a red beak, dull white rhamphotheca, black
body, golden-yellow throat, blood-red band and posterior, and a
golden-yellow rump.
Linn: Syst: Naturae. p.103.2.
The head and neck are black on top as are the back,
wings, tail and abdomen. The throat and lower part of the neck
are an off-white golden-yellow colour, there is a blood-red band
on the breast. The posterior is a saffron-blood-red colour. The rump
is golden yellow. The flight feathers on the sides of the wings are shorter.
It lives in the Grenadine Islands.
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Birds Volume 2, Painting 3