Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, many of them with free online access.
Search for free, downloadable images taken from our library and museum collections, including paintings, illustrations, photos and more.
A golden-winged flycatcher (bird) catching an insect. Watercolour by J.C. Lettsom, 1757.
- Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
- Date
- [1757]
- Reference
- 19997i
- Pictures
- Online
Available online
Licence
Public Domain Mark
You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law.
Public Domain Mark (PDM) terms and conditions https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Credit: A golden-winged flycatcher (bird) catching an insect. Watercolour by J.C. Lettsom, 1757. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
Selected images from this work
About this work
Description
The Oxford English Dictionary identifies the golden-winged flycatcher as, in England, usually of the genus Muscicapa, especially M. grisola, and in America as usually of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. carolinensis and T. pipiri
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], [1757]
Physical description
1 drawing : pen and ink, with watercolour ; sheet 18.8 x 15 cm
Contributors
Lettering
The golden-winged flycatcher. Ino. C. Lettsom. fecit. æt.13.
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 19997i
Reproduction note
Likely to have been copied from a published work, but the source has not been traced in M. Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, 1731-1743
Type/Technique
Languages
- English
Subjects
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores