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Artist
Georg Forster (1754–1794)
Description
Water-colour drawing by Georg Forster of the paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata)
Date 1773
date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 54.4 cm (21.4 in); width: 34.4 cm (13.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,54.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,34.4U174728
(size of whole drawing)
Current location
institution QS:P195,Q309388
Accession number
Plate 66
Object history This is from a collection of drawings purchased by Joseph Banks in August 1776 for 400 guineas.(Medway, 1976, p. 49; Dawson, 1958, p. 339)
Inscriptions

Based on Lysaght 1959, p. 288

  • "Anas Cheneros. Pooa dugghie dugghie. No. 24. Dusky Bay. N.Z. April 7th. 1773."
  • Added by Jonas Dryander (1748-1810): "Ge. Forster"
  • Added by an unknown hand: "— variegata S.N.XIII: 505. n. 58. Lath. 441. n. 6."
Notes

This is one of the water-colour drawings made by Georg Forster during James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific in 1772-1775.

The watercolour is listed by Sharpe 1906, p.184 and by Lysaght 1959 p. 288 as Plate 67. This is the number written on the right-hand side of the watercolour. The NHM lists this watercolour as Plate 66.

This picture was used by John Latham when describing the "Variegated goose".(Latham, 1785, p. 441).

The painting is the holotype for the species.(Medway 1976 pp. 53-54)
References
  • Dawson, W. (1958). The Banks letters: a calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks. London: Trustees, British Museum. p. 339.
  • Latham, John (1785). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 3, Part 2. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p. 441.
  • Forster, Johann Reinhold; Lichtenstein, Heinrich (1844). Descriptiones Animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto (in Latin). Berolini: Ex Officina Academica. p. 67, No. 97.
  • Lysaght, Averil (1959). "Some eighteenth century bird paintings in the library of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. 1 (6): 251–371 (288-289, No. 67).
  • Medway, David G. (1976). "Extant types of New Zealand birds from Cook's voyages. Part 1: Historical and type paintings". Notornis. 23 (1): 45–60.
  • Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1906). The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. Vol. 2 Separate Historical Accounts of the Several Collections included in the Department of Zoology. Part 3 Birds. London: Trustees of the British Museum. pp. 79-515.
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