Core Record |
| Title |
Quagga |
| Collection |
Royal College of Surgeons for England |
| Artist |
Agasse, Jacques Laurent (Swiss artist, 1767-1849) |
| Date Earliest |
about 1817 |
| Date Latest |
about 1830 |
| Description |
This is one of a number of paintings of living animals at the Royal College of Surgeons by the Swiss artist Jacques-Laurent Agasse that were commissioned by Lord Merton. The animals are mainly shown in profile and, although painted in a manner that reflects that the works are painted from life, are intended to be seen as scientific records. This painting shows a male Quagga, an animal believed at the time to have been a cross between a Zebra and a Pony but now known to be a rare breed of Pony, now extinct. |
| Current Accession Number |
RCSSC/P 270 |
| Former Accession Number |
Keith no. 12 |
| Subject |
animal (Quagga) |
| Measurements |
20.0 x 25 cm.0 cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on millboard |
| Acquisition Details |
Purchased from the artist about 1817. |
| Publications |
Keith, A., Sir, Hunterian and Other Pictures in the Museum Collection of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 1930, cat. no. 12, p. ?; LeFanu, W., A Catalogue of the Portraits and Other Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh & London, 1960, cat. no. 270, p. 89, ill. pl. 270. |
| Notes |
This painting is identified on the reverse as the Quagga driven in Hyde Park by Sheriff Parkins. Joseph Parkins (d. 1843) was famous in the 1830s for owning a pair of Quaggas which he used to pull his carriage. |
| Rights Owner |
Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons |
| Author |
Dr Madeleine Korn |
