Artist: Georg Forster (1754–1794). Description: Water-colour drawing by Georg Forster of the Australian pied cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius). Date: 1772-1775. Dimensions: height: 33.5 cm (13.1 in); width: 48.7 cm (19.1 in)dimensions QS:P2048,33.5U174728dimensions QS:P2049,48.7U174728. 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 file:
:
Q309388 VIAF:
1146030445735860448 ISNI:
0000 0001 2270 9879 LCCN:
n94113332 NLA:
35178092 Open Library:
OL2645952A WorldCat. institution QS:P195,Q309388. Accession number: Plate 105. Object history: The collection of drawings by Georg Forster was purchased by Joseph Banks in August 1776 for 400 guineas.(Medway, 1976, p. 49). Inscriptions: From: Lysaght 1959, p. 297 "Pelecanus pica. Queen Charlotte's Sound" Added by Jonas Dryander (1748-1810): "Ge. Forster" Added by an unknown hand: "— varius S.N.XII: 576. n. 27. Lath. 605. n. 21. similar". Notes: This is one of the water-colour drawings made by Georg Forster during James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific 1772-1775. This plate was mentioned by John Latham when describing the "pied shag".(Latham, 1785) The watercolour is listed by Sharpe 1906 and Lysaght 1959 as Plate 106. This is the number written on the right hand side of the watercolour. The NHM lists this watercolour as Plate 105. The image has been cropped by the uploader to remove the scale bar and the colour chart. References: Latham, John (1785). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 3, Part 2. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p.
605. 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.
104 (104. Pelecanus pica F.). 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 (
297-298, No. 106). 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 (
188-189, Plate 106). Source/Photographer:
https://nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/44NHM_INST/12190455990002081.
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