Item 447 - Venezuelan Troupial

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Venezuelan Troupial

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Icterus icterus

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Cha. Collins Fect. April 1741.

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CA RBD MSG BW002-447

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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf

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(1680-1744)

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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 a pair of Venezuelan Troupials from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: South America and the Caribbean].

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Manuscript note on front of drawing: Cha. Collins Fect. April 1741.

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Manuscript note on back of drawing: Coracia Linaei. Galbula. Icterus ex auro nigroq[ue] Varia Catesby. 2 if [the] Galbula. Q. If the Persian Pic Aldrov. W. 132 that was described from a picture so perhaps the yellow ring round the neck omitted.

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Scientific name: Icterus icterus

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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.

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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Picae Oriolus

  1. Icterus
    Oriolus fulvus, capite iugulo dorso
    remigibus rectricibusque nigris
    macula alarum alba. L.S.N. 161. ed. nov
    Icterus Briss av. 2. p.86 t. 8 f. 2
    Picus luteo-nigra varia. Sloan jam. 2.
    p. 201. t. 259. f. 4. Raj. av. 181. n. 10.
    Picus Americanus nidum suspendens.
    Will. orn. 97 t. 23.
    Guira-Tangeima. Margr. bros. 192. Raj. av
  2. n. 6.
    Xanthorum major nigro-varius. Brown.
    jam: 477.
    Pica alba & nigra Cates: Car: 3. p. 5. t. 5
    Avis Bananas Alb. av. 2. p.40. t. 40
    Habitat in America calidiore

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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Picae Oriolus

  1. Icterus
    Oriolus fulvus [The reddish-yellow oriole] with a black head, throat, back, flight feathers on the wings and tail, and with a white patch on the wings. L.S.N. 261. ed. nov
    Icterus Briss av. 2. p.86 t. 8 f. 2
    Picus luteo-nigra varia [The variegated yellow and black...]. Sloan jam. 2.
    p. 201. t. 259. f. 4. Raj. av. 181. n. 10.
    Picus Americanus nidum suspendens [The American "hanging nest bird"].
    Will. orn. 97 t. 23.
    Guira-Tangeima. Margr. bros. 192. Raj. av
  2. n. 6.
    Xanthorum major nigro-varius [The great variegated black...]. Brown.
    jam: 477
    Pica alba & nigra [The white and black...] Cates: Car: 3. p.5. t. 5
    Avis Bananas Alb. av. 2. p.40. t. 40
    It lives in the hotter regions of America."ith manuscript text on accompanying leaf.

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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Picae Oriolus

  1. Icterus
    Oriolus fulvus, capite iugulo dorso
    remigibus rectricibusque nigris
    macula alarum alba. L.S.N. 161. ed. nov
    Icterus Briss av. 2. p.86 t. 8 f. 2
    Picus luteo-nigra varia. Sloan jam. 2.
    p. 201. t

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Birds Volume 5, Painting 20

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  • Volume: Birds v.5 (of 16)