Plain swift
Date
1830
Creator
William Home Lizars (1788 - 1859, British) , Printmaker
After
William Jardine (1800 - 1874, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
RCN29275
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 132mm
width (print): 215mm
width (print): 215mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Ornithological study of the Plain swift Apus unicolour (here styled Cypselus unicolour), a bird from the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Plate accompanying the paper ‘Observations on a collection of birds lately received from Madeira’, by William Jardine, The Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographical Science, v.1 1830, pp.241-245. Inscribed above: ‘PL.VI. Cypselus unicolour’. Inscribed below: ‘Drawn by Sir W. Jardine Bart. Engd. By W.H. Lizars. Edinr. Journal of Natural and Geographical Science.’
Sir William Jardine, seventh baronet (1800-1874) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860.
Plate accompanying the paper ‘Observations on a collection of birds lately received from Madeira’, by William Jardine, The Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographical Science, v.1 1830, pp.241-245. Inscribed above: ‘PL.VI. Cypselus unicolour’. Inscribed below: ‘Drawn by Sir W. Jardine Bart. Engd. By W.H. Lizars. Edinr. Journal of Natural and Geographical Science.’
Sir William Jardine, seventh baronet (1800-1874) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860.
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