The Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), published 1731-1743

Not on View

etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

plate: 35.2 x 25.9 cm (13 7/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

sheet: 50.3 x 35.6 cm (19 13/16 x 14 in.)

Natural History, Vol. vol.1, no. 73

1991.163.36

Mark Catesby (artist) English, 1679 - 1749

lower left in plate (along shoreline): MC; lower left in plate: Phaenicopterus.; lower right in plate: Keratophiton &c.; upper left in plate: T.73

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.