Collection MSG BW002 - Taylor White Collection

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Zone du titre et de la mention de responsabilité

Titre propre

Taylor White Collection

Dénomination générale des documents

  • Document iconographique

Titre parallèle

Compléments du titre

Mentions de responsabilité du titre

Notes du titre

  • Source du titre propre: Title from provenance of collection.

Niveau de description

Collection

Cote

CA RBD MSG BW002

Zone de l'édition

Mention d'édition

Mentions de responsabilité relatives à l'édition

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Mention d'échelle (cartographique)

Mention de projection (cartographique)

Mention des coordonnées (cartographiques)

Mention d'échelle (architecturale)

Juridiction responsable et dénomination (philatélique)

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Date(s)

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Description matérielle

938 paintings
cm of textual records

Zone de la collection

Titre propre de la collection

Titres parallèles de la collection

Compléments du titre de la collection

Mention de responsabilité relative à la collection

Numérotation à l'intérieur de la collection

Note sur la collection

Zone de la description archivistique

Nom du producteur

(1701-1772)

Notice biographique

Taylor White FRS (21 December 1701 – 27 March 1772) was a British jurist, naturalist, and collector. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was also a founding governor of the Foundling Hospital in London and served as its treasurer for many years. Beginning in the 1730s, White began to assemble a “paper museum”. He commissioned a number of artists, in particular Peter Paillou (from a French Huguenot émigré family in London) and Charles Collins (an Irish painter of still lifes and animals) to paint mammals, reptiles, fish and birds. He was also an avid collector of botanical drawings, and commissioned works from both Jacob van Huysum and the celebrated Georg Dionysius Ehret.

Taylor White’s extensive collection of bird and animal skins, live and mounted specimens, curiosities, and his collection of original drawings, was well known in his time. He was a member of a network of naturalists and amateurs that included Sir Hans Sloane (founder of the British Museum), Thomas Pennant (the first zoogeographer), Joseph Banks (explorer and President of the Royal Society), and George Edwards (author and artist). He left little correspondence and few publications. His collection of watercolours of animal specimens, from his and others’ collections, was preserved by the White family until 1927, when the zoological drawings and his manuscript catalogue were acquired by Dr. Casey Wood for what is now the Blacker Wood Collection

Historique de la conservation

The Taylor White Collection is part of the Blacker Wood Natural History Collection held at Rare Books and Special Collections, and was originally part of the Blacker-Wood Library in Zoology and Ornithology founded in 1920 by Dr. Casey Wood. The paintings in the Taylor White Collection were purchased from the rare book dealer Bernard Quaritch by Dr. Casey Wood in 1927 by way of the London-based rare book dealers Wheldon and Wesley, who purchased them from Quaritch on Wood’s behalf.

Portée et contenu

The Taylor White Collection is comprised of 938 watercolour paintings of mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles. White, a British jurist, commissioned various artists of the day (including Charles Collins, Peter Paillou, Jacob Van Huysum, George Edwards, and Eleazar Albin) to paint these animal portraits from live and dead specimens brought back to England from around the world. Many of the paintings are accompanied by loose-leaf manuscript notes, written mainly by White in Latin, providing further information about the animal; transcriptions and English translations of these notes have been provided within the record for each painting.

Zone des notes

État de conservation

Source immédiate d'acquisition

Classement

While Taylor White’s original organization scheme for the collection is unknown, before being shipped to McGill, the collection was arranged into 6 volumes of mammals, 16 volumes of birds, and 1 volume of fish and reptiles. This arrangement of the collection was carried out by William John Henry Craddock (1870-1941), an agent for the London-based rare book dealers Wheldon and Wesley. Craddock also numbered each painting in the order they were placed in each volume; as such, we have maintained this ordering system, and the number that appears before the title of each painting is the number assigned to it by Craddock. The physical storage of the collection also reflects Craddock’s arrangement, with each volume of paintings now contained in separate archival boxes. Craddock also numbered in pencil each of the loose-leaf manuscript notes, but made no attempt to match the notes to each painting.

Langue des documents

Écriture des documents

Localisation des originaux

Blacker Wood Collection

Disponibilité d'autres formats

Digital images of the paintings accompany the archival descriptions of the paintings. Digital surrogates of Taylor White's accompanying notes have been grouped together by volume following the paintings.

Restrictions d'accès

Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication

Items can be requested for consultation online via the Library Catalogue or by email at rarebooks.library@mcgill.ca. Advance notice is recommended.

Instruments de recherche

Éléments associés

Éléments associés

Accroissements

Note générale

Contemporary scientific names are provided on individual image records whenever identified.

Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)

Call number

BW elf O C695

Zone du numéro normalisé

Numéro normalisé

Mots-clés

Mots-clés - Lieux

Mots-clés - Noms

Mots-clés - Genre

Zone du contrôle

Identifiant de la description du document

Identifiant du service d'archives

Règles ou conventions

Statut

Niveau de détail

Dates de production, de révision et de suppression

The translations and transcriptions of the notes that are included here with each painting were identified, matched with the paintings, transcribed, and translated by a team of SSHRC-funded researchers led by Dr. Victoria Dickenson in 2019. Many of the artist attributions and species identifications are also a product of this team’s research.

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Localisation physique

  • Tablette: BW elf O C695