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American Rough-legged Hawk
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Rough Legged Hawk
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Buteo lagopus
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Buteo lagopus sancti-johannis
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CA RBD MSG BW002-390
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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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 Rough Legged Hawk from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: North America, Europe, Russia, Central and Northeast Asia.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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Manuscript note on front of drawing: American Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus sancti-johannis)
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Scientific name: Buteo lagopus
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Accipitres Falco
Falco
Lagopus.
falco Lagopus. rostro nigro cera
flava. pedibus Lanatis. fronto [fronte]
albo. Corpore fusco. fasciis alarum
albis. pedibus flavis.
mas ut opinor. Habitat in Canada
& America Septentrionalis
The Rough Footed Falcon
From Canada & the the Northern
parts of America.
it is suposed to feed on the Lagopus
& from thence to take its name or
perhaps from being feathered to the
Toes like the Lagopus
This bird & the next which I take
to differ in sex only were given me by Mr
Banks together with the Lagopus & many other
birds, which he brought from Canada & Labrador
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Accipitres Falco
Falco
Lagopus.
falco Lagopus. [The hare's foot falcon] with a black beak and golden-yellow cere, downy feet, a white
front, tawny body, white bands on the wings,
and golden-yellow feet.
I believe this is the male. It lives in Canada
and North America.
The Rough Footed Falcon
From Canada & the Northern
parts of America.
it is suposed to feed on the Lagopus
& from thence to take its name or
perhaps from being feathered to the
Toes like the Lagopus
This bird & the next which I take
to differ in sex only were given me by Mr
Banks together with the Lagopus & many other
birds, which he brought from Canada & Labrador
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Birds Volume 4, Painting 17
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- Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 (Collector)