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. 308
"Muscicapa? heteroclita. Tana Aug. 7th. 1774."
Added by Jonas Dryander (1748-1810): "Ge. Forster"
Added by an unknown hand: "— flavifrons S.N.XIII: 944. n. 72"
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. 197 and by Lysaght 1959 p. 308 as Plate 158. This is the number written on the right-hand side of the watercolour. The NHM lists this watercolour as Plate 157.
This picture was used by John Latham when describing the "Yellow-fronted flycatcher".(Latham, 1783, pp. 342-343).
The watercolour was painted in 1774 and is the holotype for the species.(Lysaght 1959 p. 308, No. 158)
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.
Latham, John (1783). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 2, Part 1. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. pp.
342-343, No. 38.
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.
271, No. 219.
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 (
308, No. 158).
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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