The Lyon Lizard (Lacerta 6-lineata)

published 1731-1743

Mark Catesby

Associated Names
Mark Catesby

Artist, English, 1679 - 1749

The image includes a green-stemmed plant with elongated leaves and two prominent flowers, one yellow and the other white. A lizard is on the plant's stem. The color palette consists of green, yellow, gray, and white against a light background. The plant stretches from the bottom to the top of the image, with the lizard positioned in the middle, wrapping its tail around the stem above visible roots at the base.

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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: 34.8 x 25.7 cm (13 11/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 51.7 x 34 cm (20 3/8 x 13 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.163.26

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Natural History, Vol. vol.2, no. 68

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 right in plate: MC; lower left in plate: Lacertus.; lower right in plate: Viscum.; upper right in plate: T.68.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 30.00 p[?]

Watermarks

fleur-de-lis

Wikidata ID

Q74894730

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