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Yellow Bunting [male] & [female]
Yellowhammer, male and female
Emberiza citrinella
Char. Collins Fect. 1736;
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 male and female Yellowhammers from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and New Zealand].
Significant foxing.
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Yellow Bunting [male] & [female] (Emberiza citronella) Char. Collins Fect. 1736;
Manuscript note on back of drawing: The Yellow Hammer, Emberiza from Gesn. Hortulanus of Bellonius. Lutes alter un genus. Aldrov. Chloreus seu Lutea Aristotelis Turner. W. 268 yellow Hammer
Scientific name: Emberiza citrinella
With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Passeres Emberiza
Citrinela
5 Emberiza rectricibus nigricantibus:
extimis duabus latere interiore macula
alba acuta. L.N.S. [sic] p. 177
Habitat in Europa
The
Yellow-hamer
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Passeres Emberiza
Citrinela
5 Emberiza with black flight feathers on the tail, with
two outermost feathers that are pointed and speckled with white on the inner side. L.N.S. [sic] p. 177
It lives in Europe.
The
Yellow-hamer