Artist: Georg Forster (1754–1794). Description: Watercolour painting by Georg Forster of the New Zealand king shag (Leucocarbo carunculatus). Date: 1772-1775. Dimensions: height: 33.5 cm (13.1 in); width: 48.5 cm (19 in)dimensions QS:P2048,33.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,48.5U174728. 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. Web page:
www.nhm.ac.uk. Authority control:
:
Q309388 VIAF:
1146030445735860448 ISNI:
0000 0001 2270 9879 LCCN:
n94113332 NLA:
35178092 Open Library:
OL2645952A WorldCat. institution QS:P195,Q309388. Accession number: Plate 103. Object history: The collection of drawings was purchased by Joseph Banks in August 1776 for 400 guineas.(Medway, 1976). Notes: This is one of the watercolours and drawing made by Georg Forster during James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific 1772-1775. The watercolour is listed by Sharpe 1906 as Plate 104; this number is written on the right hand side of the watercolour. However, the NHM lists this watercolour as Plate 103. The NHM image has been cropped by the uploader to remove the scale bar and the colour chart. References: 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, Plate 104). 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. pp.
102-103 (103. Pelecanus carunculatus F.). 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. Source/Photographer:
https://nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/44NHM_INST/12190455990002081.