The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 512

Copy of a Swainson lithograph of a Collared Crabeater (Halcyon Collaris)

Object details

Alternate titles

Copy of Plate 27 from William Swainson's, "Zoological Illustrations", vol. 1, 1820

Image size: h 19.5cm x w 15.0cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Contact

Physical description: waxed; bottom edge is 14.8 cm wide; both left and right edges measure 19.4 cm

Inscription: signature on original lithograph, beside branch, W Swainson fec. [Wiliam Swainson fecit. - Latin for 'made me']

Watermark: Rye Mill 1817

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-0374/2

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 512

Copy of a Swainson lithograph of a Collared Crabeater (Halcyon Collaris)

Keywords: Bird

This photographic copy of an illustration of a bird is plate 27 from volume 1 from William John Swainson’s, “Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals; selected chiefly for the classes of ornithology, etymology, and conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists”, London, 1820.  The original scientific plates in Swainson’s publication were hand-coloured.