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 15.7cm

Paper size: h 22.8cm x w 18.1cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: negative has an uneven edge

Inscription: in pencil, recto, 1; in original lithographic print, 27. [title of lithographic print]

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-1041

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.