Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (27.3 × 22.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower right: "Guinea Parrot"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "[...] Lady Wager Collecn | 1740 given | to Sr. Hans Sloan"; inscribed on back in graphite, lower center: "The common Guinea | parrot Varied | accidentally"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "from Lady Wagers since presented | to Sr Hans Sloane and is now Living Geo Edwards"; in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Guinea"; in graphite, lower right: "2920"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2583
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
animal art | parrot | bird | branch
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Christopher Plumb, The Georgian menagerie : exotic animals in eighteenth-century London, I.B. Tauris, London, 2015, p. 208, fig. 11, QL73.G72 L667 2015