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Turnstone
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpres
Cha. Collins Fect. May. 1742;
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 pair of Ruddy Turnstones from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: widespread along all coasts].
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) Cha. Collins Fect. May. 1742;
Manuscript note on back of drawing: The Turn Stone or Sea Dotterel Morinellus Marinus of Sir T. Browne W. p. 111
Scientific name: Arenaria interpres
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Tobata
Tringa rostro sublato apice
inflexo, pedibus virescentibus
lobatis abdomine albido.
L.S.N. p. 148
Habitat in America
Septentrionali. Lapponia
Morinellus Marinus
The
Turn Stone
or
Sea Dottrel.
No. 1. W. p.111
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Tobata
Tringa with a raised beak with a curved tip,
green lobate feet,
and a white abdomen.
L.S.N. p. 148
It lives in North America
and Lapland.
Morinellus Marinus
The
Turn Stone
or
Sea Dottrel.
No. 1. W. p.111