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Summary

Artist
Georg Forster (1754–1794)
Description
Water-colour drawing by Georg Forster of the African rail (Rallus caerulescens)
Date 1773
date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 48.3 cm (19 in); width: 33.8 cm (13.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,48.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,33.8U174728
(size of whole drawing)
Current location
institution QS:P195,Q309388
Accession number
Plate 126
Object history This is from a collection of drawings by Georg Forster purchased by Joseph Banks in August 1776 for 400 guineas.(Dawson, 1958, p. 339)
Inscriptions

Based on Lysaght 1959, p. 302

  • Signed "G.F.1773. Rallus Cafer."
  • Added by Jonas Dryander: "Ge. Forster"
  • Added by an unknown hand: "Prom. bon. spei. — caerulescens S.N.XIII: 716"
Notes

This is one of the water-colour drawings made by Georg Forster during James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific in 1772-1775.

The watercolour is listed by Sharpe 1906, p. 192 and by Lysaght 1959 p. 302 as Plate 129. This is the number written on the right-hand side of the watercolour. The NHM lists this watercolour as Plate 126.

John Latham based his description of the "blue necked rail" on this picture by Forster.(Latham, 1785, p. 234).

The watercolour was painted in 1773 at the Cape of Good Hope and is the holotype for the species.(Lysaght 1959, p. 302)

The image has been cropped by the uploader.
References
  • Dawson, W. (1958). The Banks letters: a calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks. London: Trustees, British Museum. p. 339.
  • Forster, Johann Reinhold; Lichtenstein, Heinrich (1844). Descriptiones Animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto (in Latin). Berolini: Ex Officina Academica. p. 50, No. 60.
  • Latham, John (1785). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 3, Part 2. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p. 234.
  • Lysaght, Averil (1959). "Some eighteenth century bird paintings in the library of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. 1 (6): 251–371 (302, No. 129).
  • Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1906). The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. Vol. 2 Separate Historical Accounts of the Several Collections included in the Department of Zoology. Part 3 Birds. London: Trustees of the British Museum. pp. 79-515.
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