SC - Re:Turkeys

[Daniel Phelps]

Was written:

>Turkeys are also accurately depicted in an early 17th
>century painting by Joseph Heinz the younger hanging in
>the Museo Davia Bargellini in Bologna, in a 16th century
>manuscript in the Museo Civico in Padua and in Bernardo
>Strozzi's "The Cook".  All of these turkey paintings are in
>Gillian Riley's "Rennaissance Recipes -Painters and Food"
>Pomegrante Artbooks, San Francisco, 1993.  If someone
>on the list has access to more detailed sources for these
>paintings and can get exact dates for the works, we would
>have an excellent basis for co-oborating the widespread
>use of turkey in Italy from the early middle of the 16th century.


Regards turkeys Fernando Braudel in "The Structures of Everyday Life"
Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century Vol. 1 page 189 says:
:

"Turkeys came from America in the 16th century.  A dutch painter, Joachim
Buedkalaer (1530-73) was probably among the first to include one in a still
life, today in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam."

I seem to remember other references that suggest that they were reasonably
common domestic fowl in England post 1550.  Common enough that records exist
of them being driven to market and prices quoted.  If there is enough
interest I will research this further and find the specific references in my
collection.  Please remember that with this fowl there is some historical
confusion with the Guinea Hen.

Daniel Raoul

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