The Coach-whip Snake (Coluber flagellum)

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: 25.6 x 35.6 cm (10 1/16 x 14 in.)
    sheet: 35.6 x 52.4 cm (14 x 20 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.163.64

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Natural History, Vol. vol.2, no. 54


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

center in plate: MC; lower left in plate: Lychnis &c.; lower right in plate: Anguis &c.; upper left in plate: 54

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q74894949


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