Artist: Georg Forster (1754–1794). Description: Water-colour drawing by Georg Forster of the African rail (Rallus caerulescens). Date: 1773date 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:
Natural History Museum .
. Native name: Natural History Museum. Parent institution: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Location:
London, England, UK. Coordinates:
51° 29′ 46″ N, 0° 10′ 34″ W . Established: 1881. Website:
www.nhm.ac.uk. Authority control:
:
Q309388 VIAF:
1146030445735860448 ISNI:
0000 0001 2270 9879 LCCN:
n94113332 NLA:
35178092 Open Library:
OL2645952A WorldCat. 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.(Medway, 1976, p. 49; 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. Source/Photographer:
https://nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44NHM_INST/1afpmgq/alma99754602081.
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