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Tufted capuchin
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Sapajus apella
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CA RBD MSG BW002-014
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- Paillou, Peter, approximately 1720-approximately 1790
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm
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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 Tufted capuchin from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: South America.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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Scientific name: Sapajus apella
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Primates Simia Cercopithecus
- Paniscus
Cercopithecus in pedibus anterioribus pollice
carens, cauda inferius apicem pilis destituta
Briss. quadr. 211.
Simia fusca, major, palmis tetradactylis, cauda
prehensili ad apicem subtus nuda Brown Jam. 489
Simia caudata imberbis atra, cauda prehensili
Palmis tetradactylis. L.S.N. p. 37
Habitat in America meridionali.
Corpus atrum, magnitudine mollosi.
Pedes & cauda dimidia exteriorior [exterior] bruneae;
cauda extremitas hinc nuda, qua, quicquid e terra
elevet, prehendit. Digiti pedum 4-5.
Z. Hallman; est vero Pollex digiti Pedum reliquis
minor, introrsum a ceteris remotis.
unguesq[ue] manuum rotundati; pedum oblongiusculi.
D. Aymen Facies nuda, rubra, auriculae nudae.
That which I saw was wholy black as in
the Drawing
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Mammalia Primate Simia Cercopithecus
- Paniscus
Cercopithecus lacking a thumb on the fore-feet,
with a tail that is entirely hairless under the tip.
Briss. quadr. 211.
The large tawny simia with four-fingered hands, a prehensile
tail that is bare underneath at the tip. Brown Jam. 489
The black, tailed, and beardless simia, with a prehensile tail,
and four-fingered hands. L.S.N. p. 37
It lives in South America.
The body is black, it is the size of a Molossian hound.
The feet and tail are brown on the outer half;
the tail is bare at the tip, with which, whenever it lifts itself from the
ground, it holds on. There are 4-5 toes on the feet.
Z. Hallman; The thumb is truly smaller than the rest of the
fingers, it is to the inside and far removed from the others.
The nails of the hands are round; the feet are a little longer than wide. D. Aymen The face is bare, and red, with bare ears.
That which I saw was wholy black as in
the Drawing
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Mammals Volume 1, Painting 14