Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10001
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‘The Ring Parrakeet, and the Blue-headed Parrakeet’
Date
1758
Creator
George Edwards (1694 - 1773, British) , Ornithologist
Object type
Library reference
38029
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 288mm
width (print): 220mm
width (print): 220mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Ornithological study of two parakeets, possibly the male and female Rose-ringed parakeet Psittacula kramerius shown perched on low-lying tree branches.
Plate 292 from chapter 82 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The author describes the birds within the text: “The Ring Parrakeet is the upper figure...the Blue-headed Parakeet is the lower. They are both of the same shape and make every way, and may possibly be Male and Female...
These birds were both brought alive to London in one of our East-India Company’s ships...I drew them both from the living birds.”
The plate is inscribed: “The Ring-Parrokeet, and the Blue headed Parrokeet, boath from the East Indies. Drawn from Life by Geo Edwards, AD 1758.”
Plate 292 from chapter 82 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The author describes the birds within the text: “The Ring Parrakeet is the upper figure...the Blue-headed Parakeet is the lower. They are both of the same shape and make every way, and may possibly be Male and Female...
These birds were both brought alive to London in one of our East-India Company’s ships...I drew them both from the living birds.”
The plate is inscribed: “The Ring-Parrokeet, and the Blue headed Parrokeet, boath from the East Indies. Drawn from Life by Geo Edwards, AD 1758.”
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