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Philip Reinagle RA, Four drawings of birds in flight

Four drawings of birds in flight

Philip Reinagle RA (1749 - 1833)

RA Collection: Art

Many of Philip Reinagle's drawings in the Royal Academy collection are studies of birds, some of which are preparatory drawings for paintings. Birds feature in many of Reinagle's compositions (see his Diploma work) and he also produced a group of paintings depicting large assemblies of different types of birds, such as 'The King Eagle Pursued to the Sun by a Multitudinous Flock of Birds'. The source material for such compositions was almost certainly Sir Ashton Lever's museum or 'Holophusikon', which was open to the public in London between 1773 and 1806. The collection included ethnographic material, natural objects like fossils and shells as well as a large number of stuffed birds and animals. Reinagle provided illustrations for George Shaw's Museum Leverianum, containing Select Specimens from the Museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever, Kt. , London, 1792-96.

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Object details

Title
Four drawings of birds in flight
Artist/designer
Philip Reinagle RA (1749 - 1833)
Object type
Drawing
Medium
Pencil, pen and brown ink, and watercolour on cream laid paper
Dimensions

318 mm x 190 mm

Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
Object number
02/843
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Gilbert Bakewell Stretton 1949
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