The Buffel's Head Duck (Anas bucephala)

published 1731-1743

Mark Catesby

Artist, English, 1679 - 1749

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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

    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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