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Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :Fringa lobata. N. W. C[oast] of America. Picus tridactylus. Norton's Sound ... Gull ... Butcher bird, caught at ice between Asia and America [1779]
- Date
- 1779
- Reference
- A-264-033
- Description
Four drawings of the heads of birds, seen in profile, with two seen from above and the beaks and feet or legs of the three upper specimens also shown. The birds shown are the Phalarope, the Alaskan 3-toed woodpecker, a gull probably from Alaska and the butcher bird
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - titles in ink, with numbers 74, 75, 76 and 77. Also in pencil, top right, the number 1.191 crossed out and 1.210 substituted
Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 311 x 200 mm
Provenance: Astley family; sold 1974
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :[A collection of drawings made by William Ellis on H.M.S. Discovery and Resolution during Captain Cook's third voyage to the Pacific 1776-1780] / Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :[A collection of drawings made by William Ellis on H.M.S. Discovery and Resolution during Captain Cook's third voyage to the Pacific 1776-1780]
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Scientific illustrations, Ink and watercolour, 311 x 200 mm, Orientation: Vertical image, Watermark: Watermark of a circle enclosing a wreath with G R below a crown
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