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Parokets of Oteheate Natural Size. Sarah Stone [Blue lorikeets (Vini peruviana)]

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Date

[ca 1780-1789]

Artist

Sarah Stone (1760-1844)

Collective Title

Raper, George, 1769-1797: Birds of Australia and South Seas. Original drawings 1788-90. From E. Cane

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23045587

Description

Two Blue lorikeets (Vini peruviana), also known as Pacific lorikeets or Tahitian blue lory. The specimens are depicted perched on the branches of a tree.

According to Christine E. Jackson this work was first catalogued as part of the Leverian Museum sale catalogue No. 4748 'Otaheitan blue parrot. Ps Taitanus'. [purchased by Mr] Vaughan [in 1806] 3 [£] 11. 0.' See Jackson, Christine E. 'Sarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the New Worlds.' Merrell Holberton, 1998, p. 129. The Leverian Museum in London was sold in 1806 and its contents dispersed after this date. This work is likely to have been painted between about 1780 (when many of the specimens from Captain Cook's voyages came to the Leverian Museum), and 1789, when Sarah Stone married and stopped signing her name as Stone.

Title supplied by Library incorporating transcription from item.

Image Licence

All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Tahiti, French Polynesia

Country

French Polynesia

Tags

Birds

Category

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