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Image number: RS.9977
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‘The Brasilian Green Macaw’
Date
1755
Creator
George Edwards (1694 - 1773, British) , Ornithologist
Object type
Library reference
38029
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 286mm
width (print): 220mm
width (print): 220mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Ornithological study of an unidentified parrot or macaw from Brazil, shown perched on a low tree branch.
Plate 229 from chapter 19 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The author describes the bird within the text: “This bird is of the size of a tame pigeon...My original is drawn after nature, of the size of life, though reduced...it was (A.D.1752) the property of the Right Hon. The Lord Carpenter, who was so good as to lend it me, to make a drawing of it. Sir Hans Sloane seems to hint, that his Small Maccaw, mentioned in his History of Jamqaica, vol.II p,297 is the same with the above-described; though I think, if it were a native of Jamaica, we should see it more common in England, where it is very rare; for I have only seen this one in my searches after foreign animals.”
The plate is inscribed: “Geo Edwards Delin et Sculp. AD 1755”
Plate 229 from chapter 19 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The author describes the bird within the text: “This bird is of the size of a tame pigeon...My original is drawn after nature, of the size of life, though reduced...it was (A.D.1752) the property of the Right Hon. The Lord Carpenter, who was so good as to lend it me, to make a drawing of it. Sir Hans Sloane seems to hint, that his Small Maccaw, mentioned in his History of Jamqaica, vol.II p,297 is the same with the above-described; though I think, if it were a native of Jamaica, we should see it more common in England, where it is very rare; for I have only seen this one in my searches after foreign animals.”
The plate is inscribed: “Geo Edwards Delin et Sculp. AD 1755”
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