A ring-necked parakeet. Watercolour by J.C. Lettsom, 1757.

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
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[1757]
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19996i
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A ring-necked parakeet. Watercolour by J.C. Lettsom, 1757. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Oxford English Dictionary identifies the ring-necked parakeet as Palæornis torquatus and states that it was often kept as a cage bird, though the earliest cited example of the word "ring-necked" dates from 1831

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], [1757]

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1 drawing : pen and ink, with watercolour ; sheet 20 x 12.9 cm

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The ring parrakeet. In.o L. æt. 13.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19996i

Creator/production credits

Lettsom's authorship is inferred from the inscription bearing his name on a companion watercolour (record no 19997 in this catalogue)

Reproduction note

Likely to have been copied from a published work, but the source has not been found in M. Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, 1731-1743

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