drawing;
album
- Museum number
- SL,5261.98
- Description
-
The skinned head of a reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), in an album originally containing 167 drawings of quadrupeds
Brush drawing in grey wash, with watercolour
- Production date
- 1739 (?)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 201 millimetres
-
Width: 161 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- George Edwards mentioned the specimen from which this drawing was made in the text accompanying his etching of a ‘Greenland buck’ in his ‘A Natural History of Uncommon Birds’ [final title], volume I, plate 51. He also incorporated into the accompanying text, almost verbatim, the long inscription on the verso of this drawing, dated October 31st 1739. This suggests that Edwards returned to the drawing and its inscription when compiling the first volume of the book in c.1742-3. For further information on Edwards’ drawings of reindeer see SL,5261.103, and for further evidence of his practice of revisiting drawings see SL,5261.1 and SL,5261.114.
For a description of the album see Curator's Comment in SL,5261.1.
In album SL,5261.1 to 167.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A natural history of uncommon birds (1743-1751)
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred to Prints and Drawings 17 November 1886 (see note on fly-leaf). Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5261.98
