Skeleton of a Heron
1620-1621
Artist, Italian, 1589 - 1629

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 14.6 × 9.2 cm (5 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.)
sheet: 17.4 × 11.4 cm (6 7/8 × 4 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2023.5.14
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Catalogue Raisonné
Chiarini, no. 428
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA); NGA purchase, 2023.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2007
Chiarini, Marco. Teodoro Filippo di Liagno detto Filippo Napoletano, 1589-1629: Vite e opere. Florence: Centro Di, 2007, no. 428.
Inscriptions
in plate, in image at lower right: ARDEA piscatrix / avis est, praenuncia / Venti, Et pluviae, ac / hyemis, cum querulo / ore sonat; in plate, at bottom right: F; bottom right corner of sheet, in pen and ink by a later hand: 22