Forster Phalcoboenus australis

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Artist: Georg Forster (1754–1794). Description: Water-colour drawing by Georg Forster of the striated caracara (Phalcoboenus australis). Date: 1775date QS:P571,+1775-00-00T00:00:00Z/9. Dimensions: height: 53.9 cm (21.2 in); width: 36.9 cm (14.5 in)dimensions QS:P2048,53.9U174728dimensions QS:P2049,36.9U174728 (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 file: : Q309388 VIAF: 1146030445735860448 ISNI: 0000 0001 2270 9879 LCCN: n94113332 NLA: 35178092 Open Library: OL2645952A WorldCat. institution QS:P195,Q309388. Accession number: Plate 34. 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. 281 'Statenland, Jany. 3rd. 1775" – added by Johann Reinhold Forster "S.N.XIII: 259. Lath. 40. n. 19." – added by unknown hand "Ge. Forster" – added by Jonas Dryander. 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. 180 and by Lysaght 1959 p. 281 as Plate 34. This is the number written on the right-hand side of the watercolour. John Latham based his description of the "Statenland eagle" on notes provided by Georg Forster's father Johann Reinhold Forster.(Latham, 1781, pp. 40-41). The watercolour was painted in 1775 at Isla de los Estados (Staten Island).(Lysaght 1959, p. 281) 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. 223. Latham, John (1781). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 1, Part 2. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. pp. 40-41. 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 (281, No. 34). 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.