IDENTIFIERS
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id:	185673
accession number:	4171.11

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 11 October 2011
updated:	Thursday 28 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A watercolour drawing from the album 4171. This image depicts a pair of Luzon bleeding-heart doves (Gallicolumba luzonica) perched together on a flowering branch. The birds display the species' characteristic soft grey-green plumage with pale silvery-white underparts, creating a harmonious and subdued color palette. Most notably, both birds show the distinctive bright red patch on their breast that gives the bleeding-heart dove its evocative name, appearing like a vivid crimson stain against their pale chest feathers. The painting demonstrates the fine brushwork characteristic of Chinese export art from the late 18th or early 19th century, combining ornithological documentation and traditional Chinese flower-and-bird painting style.
title:	drawing

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185673





TECHNIQUES
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watercolour, bodycolour and ink with heightening in white on pith paper, laid down with with strips of blue silk-covered paper
drawing

CATEGORIES
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category: drawing

DATING
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culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Youqua

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 250

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 337



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