A ring-necked parakeet. Watercolour by J.C. Lettsom, 1757.
- Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
- Date:
- [1757]
- Reference:
- 19996i
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The Oxford English Dictionary identifies the ring-necked parakeet as Palæornis torquatus and states that it was often kept as a cage bird, though the earliest cited example of the word "ring-necked" dates from 1831
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], [1757]
Physical description
1 drawing : pen and ink, with watercolour ; sheet 20 x 12.9 cm
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The ring parrakeet. In.o L. æt. 13.
Creator/production credits
Lettsom's authorship is inferred from the inscription bearing his name on a companion watercolour (record no 19997 in this catalogue)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19996i
Reproduction note
Likely to have been copied from a published work, but the source has not been found in M. Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, 1731-1743
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