The Buffel's Head Duck (Anas bucephala)

published 1731-1743

Mark Catesby

Associated Names
Mark Catesby

Artist, English, 1679 - 1749

This is a drawing of a duck. The image features a duck standing on a simple ground. The duck is depicted in profile, with a colorful head combining hues of blue and green, accented with white. The feathers on the duck's body are textured with detailed lines in shades of grey and black. The duck's legs and webbed feet are visible, rendered in an earthy tone. The background of the image is bare.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.4 x 35.1 cm (10 3/8 x 13 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.9 x 51.9 cm (14 1/8 x 20 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.163.20

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Natural History, Vol. vol.1, no. 95

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green, Virginia; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1771

  • Catesby, Mark. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. London: 1771.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: MC; lower right in plate: Anas &c.; upper right in plate: T 95; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Catesby 1731

Watermarks

fleur-de-lis in shield surmounted by crown

Wikidata ID

Q74894685

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