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Artist
Georg Forster (1754–1794)
Description
Water-colour drawing by Georg Forster of the New Zealand pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae) (cropped version)
Date 1772-1775
Dimensions height: 54.3 cm (21.3 in); width: 36.4 cm (14.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,54.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,36.4U174728
(size of whole drawing)
Current location
institution QS:P195,Q309388
Accession number
Plate 140
Object history This is from a collection of drawings by Georg Forster purchased by Joseph Banks in August 1776 for 400 guineas.(Medway, 1976, p. 49; Dawson, 1958, p. 339)
Inscriptions

Based on Lysaght 1959, p. 305

  • "Alauda littorea. Kogoo uroùre. Q. Charlotte's Sound."
  • Added by Jonas Dryander (1748-1810): " New Zealand Lark. Latham syn. 2. p. 384. n.17. tab. 51. from this drawing."
  • Added by an unknown hand: "— nova Seelandia S.N. XIII : 799."
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. 194 and by Lysaght 1959 p. 305 as Plate 143. This is also the number written on the right-hand side of the watercolour. The NHM lists this watercolour as Plate 140.

John Latham based his description of the "New Zealand lark" on Forster's painting.(Latham, 1783, p. 384).

The painting is based of a specimen collected in Queen Charlotte Sound of New Zealand's South Island and is the holotype for the species.(Medway 1976 p. 57)
References
  • Dawson, W. (1958). The Banks letters: a calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks. London: Trustees, British Museum. p. 339.
  • Latham, John (1783). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 2, Part 2. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p. 384 No. 17, Plate 51.
  • 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 (305, No. 143).
  • Medway, David G. (1976). "Extant types of New Zealand birds from Cook's voyages. Part 1: Historical and type paintings". Notornis. 23 (1): 45–60.
  • 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.
Source/Photographer https://nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44NHM_INST/1afpmgq/alma99754602081
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