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Red-crested cardinal
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CA RBD MSG BW007-22
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approximately 1811 (Creation)
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1 illustration : colour (gouache) ; 29.2 x 24.7 cm
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(1749-1819)
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Item consists of colour illustration of a red-crested cardinal (Brazilian cardinal) perched on a branch with white and pink blossoms, alongside pale coloured butterfly. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in (hand-coloured cut-and-paste bird (lithograph?), butterfly (?), and flowering plant (unknown type as painted over) with pencil). Paper with watermark of J Whatman 1794.
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Current binomial(s): Paroaria coronata
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Other name(s): Red-crested Cardinal
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Note on names: Shore (from whose work this image is taken), calls it the Crested Dominican cardinal.
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The bird seems to be a lithograph, hand-coloured. Likely copied from a plate by Frederick Nodder made in 1800 and published in the Naturalist's Miscellany, vol. 11, plate 433. The plant (not from Nodder's image) is painted, possible in gouache with pen and ink. Shaw refers to earlier images by Miller (Cimelia Physica, tab II. A), who in turn refers to an image in George Edwards'. Butterfly may be a monarch, the plant is a Chinese magnolia, painted on the flowers.