'Red tail'd waterhen'
Date
1790
Creator
Peter Mazell (1721, Irish) , Engraver
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 185mm
width (page): 245mm
height (print): 155mm
width (print): 195mm
width (page): 245mm
height (print): 155mm
width (print): 195mm
Subject
Biology
> Zoology
> Ornithology
Biology
> Natural history
Politics & Government
> Political doctrines
> Colonialism
> Zoology
> Ornithology
Biology
> Natural history
Politics & Government
> Political doctrines
> Colonialism
Content object
Description
Ornithological study of Hodgen's waterhen, Tribonyx hodgenorum, referred to here as Gallinula phoenicurus. Shown in left profile with one leg raised, on a grassy plain by the water's edge.
Inscribed below: ‘P Mazell Sculp. RED TAILED WATERHEN'
Written in the associated description: 'This species is very common in Ceylon, where it is called Kaloe-kerewaka, and seems the same kind that is so often figured on the Indian papers.
Its length is nine inches; its weight seven ounces and a quarter.'
Plate 12 from Thomas Pennant’s Indian Zoology (London, 1790), printed by Henry Hughs for Robert Faulder.
Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), British naturalist, traveller, and writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767. Best known for his published accounts of tours throughout the British Isles. He never travelled outside of Europe and his account of Indian Zoology was gleamed from drawings brought back by Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789), a servant in the colonies of the Dutch East India Company and 29th Governor of Sri Lanka, then Ceylon.
Inscribed below: ‘P Mazell Sculp. RED TAILED WATERHEN'
Written in the associated description: 'This species is very common in Ceylon, where it is called Kaloe-kerewaka, and seems the same kind that is so often figured on the Indian papers.
Its length is nine inches; its weight seven ounces and a quarter.'
Plate 12 from Thomas Pennant’s Indian Zoology (London, 1790), printed by Henry Hughs for Robert Faulder.
Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), British naturalist, traveller, and writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767. Best known for his published accounts of tours throughout the British Isles. He never travelled outside of Europe and his account of Indian Zoology was gleamed from drawings brought back by Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789), a servant in the colonies of the Dutch East India Company and 29th Governor of Sri Lanka, then Ceylon.
Related fellows
Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798, Welsh) , Naturalist
Joan Gideon Loten (1710 - 1789) , Colonial administrator
Joan Gideon Loten (1710 - 1789) , Colonial administrator
Associated place