Avium Vivae Icones (Living images of birds)

c. 1600

Adriaen Collaert

Artist, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 32 engraved plates (including title page)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art

  • Dimensions

    page size: 17.1 x 24.8 cm (6 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.32.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, nos. 1404-1435

Associated Artworks

See all 32 artworks

Three Whooper Swans

Adriaen Collaert

1595

Spoonbill and Avocet

Adriaen Collaert

1595

Peacock and Stork

Adriaen Collaert

1595

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Antiquariaat Junk B.V., Amsterdam; purchased 1993 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

1998

  • A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998, no. 75.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesburg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1404-1435.

1998

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. A Collector's Cabinet. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: no. 75.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on front endpaper in graphite: "Vogels von Diverse Plummage" / no.17 + 18 p.30 etc. / published c. 1600 and 1580, two series of which / the first one is unnumbered and bound at the / end. except the title page which opens the book. / [LD?]

Watermarks

IP

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