The Towhe Bird (Fringilla erythrophthalma), published 1754

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 35.1 x 26.2 cm (13 13/16 x 10 5/16 in.)

sheet: 42.5 x 29.2 cm (16 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

Catalogue Raisonné

Natural History, Vol. vol.1, no. 34

Accession Number

1991.163.86

Artists / Makers

Mark Catesby (artist) English, 1679 - 1749

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Passer niger, Occulis rubris. / The To-whe Bird.; lower right in plate: Passer fusca. / The cow-pen Bird.; upper center in plate: Populus nigra folio maximo &c.; upper left in plate: T.34.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Marc Catesby - London - 1754 55-

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.