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Red-headed Lovebird, male and female
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Agapornis pullarius
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Signed Charl. Collins Fect. 1737
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CA RBD MSG BW002-308
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(1680-1744)
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Charles Collins was an Irish painter, known for his portraits of animals and still-lifes. He achieved success in England painting exotic birds, game, dogs and dead game still-lifes. He was the painter for Robert Furber’s ‘Twelve Months of Fruit’ (1732). In 1736 he published in collaboration with John Lee a set of 12 large engravings, coloured by hand, of British birds in landscape and garden settings, entitled Icones avium cum nominibus anglicis. He then came to the attention of Taylor White, who engaged him to paint birds from his and others’ collections until 1743. Collins died in 1744, when he was described as ‘Bird Painter to the Royal Society.’
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Drawing of a pair of male and female Red-headed Lovebirds from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: West Africa and East Africa].
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Manuscript note on front of drawing: Charl. Collins Fect. 1737; Pullarius P.B. Parvus; The Guinea Sparrow from Africa;
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Manuscript note on back of drawing: This small Parakeet called the Guinea Sparrow is described by Willughby from Clusius W. 119
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Scientific name: Agapornis pullarius
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Pullarius
Psitacus Brachyurus parvus
Viridis, cauda coccinea fascia
Nigra sed apice viride. Dorso et
Uropigio Caeruleis Splendentibus
in maribus, fronte et Gulo [Gula] Coccineis
in Faeminis autem flavis vel
aurantiis.
Habitat in Africa
The Guinea Sparrow
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Pullarius
Psitacus Brachyurus It is small
and green, with a tail that is streaked with scarlet
and black but has a green tip;
with a bright blue back and rump
in the males, a scarlet forehead and throat
in the females, but golden-yellow or
orange [in the males].
It lives in Africa.
The Guinea Sparrow
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Birds Volume 1, Painting 52