The Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

published 1731-1743

Mark Catesby

Artist, English, 1679 - 1749

Media Options

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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: 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.)

  • Accession

    1991.163.36

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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


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

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q74894795


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