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Historical Drawings and Paintings
Here we mirror some old drawings from breeds of interrest to us because their original sites no longer exist. Photos and background courtesy of Brian Reeder, source: www.longtailfowl.com/cochin.html , www.longtailfowl.com/brahma.html . Recently I added some really cool drawings from the Chickscope project (Copyright © 1998, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), plus you´ll also find the drawings from the article "BUFF COCHINS OF TWENTY YEARS AGO" By F.L.Sewell (1912) here on page three of this album. New: RSS feed for this album.

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Brahma, 1918
Brahma, 1922
Brahmas, 1945
Brahmas, 1910
Brahmas, 1918
Sewell drawing of Buff Cochin pair
US Buff Brahma chicks
US Dark Brahma chicks
US Light Brahma chicks
Cochins, 1850
Cochin, 1895
Cochin, 1910
Cochin, 1918
Buff Cochin pair, 1945
Cochin, 1895
Cochin hen, 1918
Cochins, 1895
1870 Dark Brahma male
1870 Light Brahma pair
1887 Dark Brahma pair
In plumage the male is pure white, excepting hackle, tail, and flights, which are black, and white striped with black. Any other color but white and black is against the standard-bred bird. The hackle is white with a black stripe extending down the center of each feather and tapering to a point near the extremity (see fig. 10).
The Buff variety (fig. 11) is the most bred of the Cochin class; their soft, mellow, buff tone offers an attraction to fanciers that is hard to resist.
The heavy leg and foot feathering so characteristic of breed should have constant care and attention. While the feathering should be abundant, all semblance to vulture hock or stiff feathering should be avoided.
The Partridge Cochin (fig. 13) is a beautiful yet difficult fowl to breed, and in plumage is much after the pattern of the Dark Brahma, the color being red and brown, instead of the steel-gray effect of the latter.
The black stripe in a good feather should run to a point near the end of the feather. This stripe should be free from penciling, but the standard permits a slight penciling of the black. (See fig. 14.)
Black Cochins (fig. 15) are much more easily raised than are either of the above-named varieties.
Fig. 16 shows the accepted contour of the Langshan, and a comparison with those shown on figs. 9 and 11 shows at a glance the characteristics of the Langshan as compared with the other Asiatics.
Figure 1: Figures 1 and 2 are drawings of two of the original birds imported from Britain to the US in 1892.
Figure 2: Figures 1 and 2 are drawings of two of the original birds imported from Britain to the US in 1892.
The Malays (fig. 38) are supposed to be of the parent stock of the Black Javas, but have never been popular in this country.
The leading variety of the Asiatic class is the Light Brahma (fig. 9).
1987 Light Brahma pair
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