The Buffel's Head Duck (Anas bucephala), published 1731-1743

Not on View

etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

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.)

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

1991.163.20

Mark Catesby (artist) English, 1679 - 1749

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

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

Green, George Benjamin, Dr. and Mrs.

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