The Blue Winged Shoveler (Anas clypeata foemina), published 1754

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 34.9 x 26.2 cm (13 3/4 x 10 5/16 in.)

sheet: 40.8 x 30.3 cm (16 1/16 x 11 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

Catalogue Raisonné

Natural History, Vol. vol.1, no. 96

Accession Number

1991.163.70

Artists / Makers

Mark Catesby (artist) English, 1679 - 1749

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate (in web): MC; lower center in plate: Anas &c.; upper right in plate: T 96; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Blue Wing Shoveler Duck; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Marc Catesby-London-1754

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Green, George Benjamin, Dr. and Mrs.

Bibliography

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