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Violet-eared Cordon-bleu
Violet-eared Waxbill
Granatina granatina
Item
1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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.
Drawing of a pair of Violet-eared Waxbills from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Southern Africa.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Violet-eared Cordon-bleu (Uroeginthus granatinus)
Manuscript note on back of drawing: the brasil Finch
Scientific name: Granatina granatina
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Granatina LNS. [sic] ed. nov. p. 309.
Brasiliensis
11 Fringilla cauda lunei [cunei] formi, corpore
ruffescente [rufescente], temporibus uropygio [uropigio]
abdomineq[ue] violuceis [violaceis] rostro rubro
L.N.S. [sic] p. 181
The
Brasilian red and Blue
finch Edw. p. 191
Aves Passeres Fringilla
11 Granatina. L.SN. 319
Fringilla. Cauda Cuneiformi corpore
rufescente. Rostro rubro, temporibus uro-
-pigio abdomineq[ue] violaceis.
Fringilla coloribus rufo & caeruleo, brasili-
ensis Edw av. 191 t 191.
Granatinus Briss: Av. 3. p 216. t. 9 f. 3.
Habitat in Brassilia
The Brasil Finch.
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Granatina. LNS. [sic] ed nov. p. 309.
Brasiliensis
11 Fringilla with a wedge-shaped tail,
reddish body, violet temples, rump,
and abdomen, and a red beak.
L.N.S. [sic] p. 181
The
Brasilian red and Blue
finch Edw. p. 191
Aves Passeres Fringilla
11 Granatina. L.SN. 319
Fringilla with a wedge-shaped tail,
reddish body, red beak, violet temples,
rump, and abdomen.
Fringilla with red and blue colours, brasili-
ensis Edw av. 191 t 191.
Granatinus Briss: Av. 3. p 216. t. 9 f. 3.
It lives in Brasil.
The Brasil Finch.