The Blue Winged Shoveler (Anas clypeata foemina)

published 1754

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: 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.)

  • Accession

    1991.163.70

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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


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 (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

Watermarks

LVG

Wikidata ID

Q74894988


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