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Robert Jacob Gordon

149 works

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Watercolor drawing of a banded plover standing on a sandy shore with a shrub and distant hills, dated 1777.

Charadrius tricollaris (Three-banded sandplover)

1777

Hand-colored drawing of a speckled long-billed wading bird standing on a rock beside reeds and marsh plants.

Zonder titel

1777

Watercolor of a long-billed snipe bird with mottled wings standing on a rock above green sea water.

Rostratula benghalensis (Greater painted-snipe)

1777

Watercolour drawing of a painted snipe standing on a rock among reeds in a marshy landscape with distant hills.

Goudsnip (Rostratula benghalensis) in een gedetailleerd landschap

1777

Watercolor of a mottled brown long-billed wading bird standing on rocks beside reeds, with water and hills behind.

Gallinago nigripennis (Ruff)

1777

Pen and watercolour drawing of a speckled snipe with a long bill standing on a sandy bank beside reeds and water.

Gallinago nigripennis nigripennis (African snipe)

1777

Drawing of a speckled grey greenshank wading bird with long legs and bill beside rocks, grass and water.

Tringa nebularia (Common greenshank)

1777

Watercolor of a black crake with green bill and pink legs standing on a marsh bank beside reeds and a waterway.

Amaurornis flavirostra (Black crake)

1777

Watercolor botanical drawing of a turquoise ixia flowering stem with leaves, bulb, and separate flower dissections.

Ixia viridiflora Lam. (Turquoise ixia)

1777

Watercolor botanical drawing of a Cornlily (Ixia polystachya) with mauve flowers on a tall stem, bulb, leaves and detail sket

Ixia polystachya L. (Cornlily)

1777

Watercolor botanical drawing of two Gethyllis bulbs, one with a pink flower and one with curled green leaves, plus a yellow p

Gethyllis lanuginose Marloth [Gethyllis villosa] (Kukumakranka)

1777

Watercolor drawing of a Gethyllis afra bulb with curling green leaves and pale roots on a cream background.

Gethyllis afra L (Kukukmakranka)

1777

Botanical drawing of a white Gethyllis flower with two bulbs and fibrous roots, labelled gethilis, within a double ruled bord

Gethyllis sp. (Kukumakranka)

1777

Watercolour botanical drawing of a Lachenalia plant with blue flower spike, green leaves, bulb, and flower detail sketches.

Lachenalia mediana Jacq

1777

Watercolor botanical drawing of a white-flowered bulb plant with roots, stem, and detached yellow-stamened flower parts.

Gethyllis britteniana Baker (Kukumakranka)

1777

Watercolor botanical drawing of a white-flowered Lachenalia plant with green leaves, bulb and roots, with flower dissections.

Lachenalia orthopetala Jacq. (Hyacinth)

1777

Watercolor botanical drawing of a Lachenalia plant with a spike of white flowers, bulb, and dissected flower parts.

Lachenalia unifolia Jacq. (Hyacinth)

1777

Watercolor of a pink gladiolus with buds, long green leaves and a bulb with roots on cream paper.

Gladiolus cardinalis Curtis

1777

Watercolor botanical drawing of a Lachenalia plant with yellow flower spike, spotted leaves, bulb and roots.

Lachenalia arbuthnotiae W.F. Barker (Hyacinth)

1777

Botanical watercolor of a pink gladiolus stem with leaves, a bulb with roots, and dissected flower parts.

Gladiolus caryphyllaceus (Burm,f.) Poir

1777

Watercolor botanical drawing of a plant with striped narrow leaves and yellow-green flowers on a tall stem.

Freesia viridis (Aiton) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

1777