image credit Yale Center for British Art | Licence: Public DomainYale Center for British Art
image credit Yale Center for British Art | Licence: Public DomainYale Center for British Art

A Bird

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Additional Information

From the Collection

Description

Inscribed in graphite, center right: "Back wings + tail deep | black. | under parts all | [...] | bands on the wings | White."; lower center: "Malacaonotus atropurpureus. Burchell."; on verso, lower center: "57"
Medium: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Image Credit

image credit Yale Center for British Art

From the Watercolour World

Location

South America

Medium

Line drawing

Tww Comment

This appears to be a crimson-breasted shrike, also known as Burchell's shrike who first discovered the species near the confluence of Vaal and Orange rivers.