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Summary

Artist
Georg Forster (1754–1794)
Description
Water-colour drawing by Georg Forster of the Australian pied cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)
Date 1772-1775
Dimensions height: 33.5 cm (13.1 in); width: 48.7 cm (19.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,33.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,48.7U174728
Current location
institution QS:P195,Q309388
Accession number
Plate 105
Object history The collection of drawings by Georg Forster was purchased by Joseph Banks in August 1776 for 400 guineas.(Medway, 1976, p. 49)
Inscriptions

From: Lysaght 1959, p. 297

  • "Pelecanus pica. Queen Charlotte's Sound"
  • Added by Jonas Dryander (1748-1810): "Ge. Forster"
  • Added by an unknown hand: "— varius S.N.XII: 576. n. 27. Lath. 605. n. 21. similar"
Notes

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

This plate was mentioned by John Latham when describing the "pied shag".(Latham, 1785)

The watercolour is listed by Sharpe 1906 and Lysaght 1959 as Plate 106. This is the number written on the right hand side of the watercolour. The NHM lists this watercolour as Plate 105.

The image has been cropped by the uploader to remove the scale bar and the colour chart.
References
  • Latham, John (1785). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 3, Part 2. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p. 605.
  • 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. 104 (104. Pelecanus pica F.).
  • 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 (297-298, No. 106).
  • 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 (188-189, Plate 106).
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