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Spotted deer [male]
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Chital, male
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Axis axis
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- Source of title proper: Caption title.
- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Cervus axis
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CA RBD MSG BW002-135
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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Name of creator
(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 male Chital from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: India, Southeast Asia, Australia, Texas, and Argentina.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Spotted deer [male](Cervus axis)
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: No 6 The White Spotted Stag
General note
Scientific name: Axis axis
Accompanying material
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Accompanying material
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Pecora Cervus
Formosus
Cervus Formosus. Cornua quinque
cujus tribus in verticibus positis
colore rufescente sed in
lateribus maculis albis notatus
in parte inferiore albicat.
Magnitudine precenti [precedenti] inferior
Habitat
The White Spoted Stag.
This most beautifull stag & its Hinde was
painted at Windsor & belong to ye D. of Cumberland
it is larger then the comon Red Deer but
less then the Brown spoted. its horns stronger
then those of the brown spoted stag the branches
the same in number & placed in the same order
I have not yet been informed what country it inhabits
Accompanying material
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Pecora Cervus
Formosus
Cervus Formosus. with five [branched] antlers
of which three [branches] are placed at the highest point;
it is reddish in colour but
it is marked with white spots on the sides;
it is white on the lower parts.
It is smaller than the previous.
It lives
The White Spoted Stag.
This most beautifull stag & its Hinde was
painted at Windsor & belong to [the] D[uke] of Cumberland
it is larger than the comon Red Deer but
less then the Brown spoted. its horns stronger
then those of the brown spoted stag the branches
the same in number & placed in the same order
I have not yet been informed what country it inhabits
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Volume number
Mammals Volume 4, Painting 15