Dead Woodcock / Sugar Bird of the Cape

One side of this sheet features a watercolour of a dead woodcock by naval officer Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844). On the other side is a graphite drawing of a cape sugarbird (Promerops cafer) on a branch. This drawing was probably made between 1796 and 1798, when Hollis was serving at the Cape of Good Hope, initially in the ‘Chichester’ and later in the ‘Tremendous’. For other examples of Hollis’s work, see PAH4885 and ZBB0352–84.