The Towhe Bird (Fringilla erythrophthalma)

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: 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.)

  • Accession

    1991.163.86

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

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: 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-

Watermarks

fleur-de-lis in a shield

Wikidata ID

Q74895063

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