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Shag (imm.)
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Great Cormorant, immature
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Phalacrocorax carbo
Title statements of responsibility
Cha. Collins Fect. 1739;
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- Source of title proper: Caption title.
- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Phalacrocorax graculus
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CA RBD MSG BW002-841
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1739 (Creation)
- Creator
- Collins, Charles
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(1680-1744)
Biographical history
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 an immature Great Cormorant from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the East coast of North America].
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Shag (imm.) (Phalacrocorax graculus) Cha. Collins Fect. 1739;
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: [Sketch of specimen's head] This bird was shot in the Great frost 1740 & I had another sent from Norway where I suppose it a Native
General note
Scientific name: Phalacrocorax carbo
Accompanying material
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Accompanying material
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Anseres Pelecanus
- Craculus palmipes
Pelecanus cauda rotundata, corpore
nigro subtus fusco, rectricibus duodecim
rostro edentulo. L.S.N. 217. ed. nov.
Will. orn. p. 332 habitat in Europa marinis
The Shag
No 25.
Accompanying material
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Anseres Pelecanus
- Craculus
Pelecanus with a rounded tail, a black body
with tawny underparts, twelve flight feathers on the tail,
and a toothless beak. L.S.N. 217. ed. nov.
Will. orn. p. 332 It lives on the sea in Europe.
The Shag
No 25.
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Birds Volume 15, Painting 25