Toucan and Another Tropical Bird
c. 1600
Artist, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G24
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 13.1 x 18.3 cm (5 3/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1993.32.1.t
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 1412, State only
Associated Artworks
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Avium Vivae Icones (Living images of birds)
Adriaen Collaert
1595
Three Whooper Swans
Adriaen Collaert
1595
Spoonbill and Avocet
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. 1412, state only.
Inscriptions
above bird on right in plate: Sicophante; lower center in plate: Adrian. Collaert excud.; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 4; by later hand, beneath bird's breast on left in pen and ink: A; by later hand, lower left in pen and ink: A. Bressila. Vulgo Pica Barbara.
Watermarks
IP
Wikidata ID
Q75122434