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Rhinoceros Hornbill
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Rhinoceros Hornbill
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Buceros rhinoceros
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Buceros rhinoceros
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CA RBD MSG BW002-315
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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 Rhinoceros Hornbill from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Indonesia and Malaysia.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros)
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Manuscript note on back of drawing: Hydrocorax Indicus
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Scientific name: Buceros rhinoceros
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf:
Aves Picaes
Buceros
Rostrum Convexum, cultratum magnum
Frontis calvaria nuda, osseo-gibbosa.
Nares in Basi rostri.
Lingua acuta, brevis.
Buceros
- Rinoceros.
Rhinoceros. Buceros cornu maxillari
frontis Recurvato
Habitat in India.
The Rhinoceros bird.
This bill is the 2d sort in Willoughby's Ora.
Table 3. it varies from Willowbys descrip.
in size . this Bird being abt ye magnitude
of the Raven. in having the Whole body
black except ye thighs the Ends of ye
tail feathers & feathers under the tail
only White.
The Legs are covered with short black
feathers down to the feet.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Picaes
Buceros
The beak is convex, knife-shaped and large;
The skull of the forehead is bare, with a bone hump-like protuberance.
The nares are in the base of the beak.
The tongue is pointed and short.
Buceros
- Rinoceros
Rhinoceros. Buceros [The rhinoceros...] with a horn
on the upper mandible curved back from the forehead.
It lives in India.
The Rhinoceros bird.
This bill is the 2d sort in Willoughby's Ora.
Table 3. it varies from Willowbys descrip[tion].
in size. This Bird being ab[ou]t [the] magnitude
of the Raven. in having the Whole body
black except [the] thighs the Ends of [the] tail
feathers & feathers under the tail
only White.
The Legs are covered with short black
feathers down to the feet.
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Birds Volume 2, Painting 6