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Procellaria conspicillata

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Title

Procellaria conspicillata

Date

1848

Contributor

Gould, John , 1804-1881 (artist)
Richter, Henry Constantine , 1821-1902 (artist)

Description

Drawing depicting: Procellaria conspicillata -- Spectacled Petrel

Note

Two birds, the foremost carefully drawn, shaded with light gray wash, the bill and one foot colored to finish standard. The second bird more sketchy and with marks of change. In the published plate the positions are retained, but the birds are dark brown, are both on land (rather than the foremost being in the water), and there is no blood dripping from the bill of the foremost. The lack of coloring was probably intended to preserve the intricately drawn feathering for transfer to the stone--and this may well be the case for Gould 2283 to 2285 also. At lower left in pencil "Mrs Gould." Previously cited as GS22 or 22GS and so marked in pencil on reverse.

Extent

Full sheet

Subject

Ornithology
Ornithological illustration
Procellaria conspicillata

Gould number

2286

URI

https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-gould/18128

Call number

Ellis Aves H141

Rights statement

This work is free of known copyright restrictions.

Rights URI

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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