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Ringed Plover
(Common) Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticula
Cha. Collins Fect November 1740
Item
1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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.’
Drawing of a Common Ringed Plover from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America].
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Ringed Plover (Aegialitis hiaticula) Cha. Collins Fect November 1740
Scientific name: Charadrius hiaticula
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Hiaticula
Charadrius, pectore nigro, fronte
Nigricante fusciola [fasciola] alba, vertice
fusco, pedibus luteis. L.S.N. p. 150
Habitat in Europa
ad ripas.
The Sea Lark
No. 20.
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Hiaticula
Charadrius, with a black breast,
a black forehead with a white band, a tawny crown,
and yellow feet. L.S.N. p. 150
It lives in Europe
near sea shores.
The Sea Lark
No. 20.