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drawing
;
album
(?)
Object Type
drawing
album
(?)
Museum number
SL,5270.83
Description
Gull, possibly an immature specimen of the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus) or a Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), leaf from a volume (now consisting of 113 leaves of drawings), associated with John White; on water Watercolour
Producer name
After:
John White
School/style
British
American
Production date
1585-1593
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
389 millimetres
Width:
266 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See curatorial comment for BM SL-5270.1 for a discussion of the album which contains this series of drawings and SL,5270.75 for a discussion of the series of drawings of birds (SL,5270.75 to 96). There is an 18th century copy of this drawing in watercolour, commissioned by Hans Sloane before 1707, in British Library Add MS5265.63.
Bibliographic references
Croft-Murray 1960 / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum, XVI and XVII centuries
(78(83))
Hulton & Quinn 1964 / The American Drawings of John White 1577-1590, with drawings of European and Oriental subjects
(65(a))
Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain
(3(100))
Location
Not on display
Subjects
bird
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
Virginia (state)
Acquisition name
Transferred from:
British Library
Bequeathed by:
Sir Hans Sloane
Acquisition date
1753
Acquisition notes
See Acq.Hist in BM SL-5270.1. Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
SL,5270.83