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Large spotted eagle
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Greater Spotted Eagle
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Clanga clanga
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- Source of title proper: Caption title.
- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Aquila maculata
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CA RBD MSG BW002-373
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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Name of creator
(approximately 1720-approximately 1790)
Biographical history
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 Greater Spotted Eagle from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Europe, Asia, and East Africa.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Large spotted eagle (Aquila maculata)
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: British Museum
General note
Scientific name: Clanga clanga
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
Accompanying material
Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves accipitres falco
aquila maculata
Aquila maculata. cera & pedibus
luteis, pedibribus [pedibus] & femoris vestitis
rostro nigro. Capite & inferiore parte
corporis fuscis. cauda dorso alis & femo-
ribus fuscis maculatis Oblongis albis
notatio. rectricibus nigris Cauda nigra
apice Albo
Habitat in
The Spotted Eagles
the Fish Eagle
[The Bird is called at the
British museum
Fish Eagle]
Accompanying material
Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves accipitres falco
aquila maculata
Aquila maculata [The spotted eagle], with a yellow cere and
feet, covered feet and thighs,
and a black beak; a tawny head and tawny underparts;
a tawny back, wings & thighs
marked with white oblong
patches; black flight feathers on the tail, and a black tail
with a white tip.
It lives in
The Spotted Eagles
the Fish Eagle
[The Bird is called at the
British museum
Fish Eagle]
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Volume number
Birds Volume 3, Painting 36
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- British Museum (Natural History) (Collector)