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

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

Image size: h 19.4cm x w 14.9cm

Paper size: h 22.1cm x w 17.6cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: album page

Inscription: in ink, recto, across bottom right corner of the image, in Sir David Brewster's hand, Mr Talbot

Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1843

Provenance:
Bischofberger
Brewster Codex

Owner: J. Paul Getty Museum

Object owner number: 84.XZ.574.176

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.