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Glaucous Gull
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Larus hyperboreus
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CA RBD MSG BW002-810
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm
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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 Glaucous Gull from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: North America, Northern and Western Europe, and Northeastern Asia.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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Scientific name: Larus hyperboreus
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Anseres Larus
Albus
Larus albus pennis fuscentibus pedibus croceis, rostro apice nigro,
magnitudine anseris.
The Great White Gull
This Bird is all White except the shafts of
of [sic] the Feathers which are of a pale brown
The legs & feet Orange coloured the bill pale
flesh colour the point Black it is of the size
of a Goose. it was brought by Mr Banks
from the Northern part of America.
No 41.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Anseres Larus
Albus
Larus albus [The white...] with tawny feathers, saffron-yellow feet, and a black-tipped beak;
it is the size of a goose.
The Great White Gull
This Bird is all White except the shafts of
of [sic] the Feathers which are of a pale brown
The legs & feet Orange coloured the bill pale
flesh colour the point Black it is of the size
of a Goose. it was brought by Mr Banks
from the Northern part of America.
No 41.
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Birds Volume 14, Painting 41
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- Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 (Collector)