The Little Brown Flycatcher

published 1731-1743

Mark Catesby

Associated Names
Mark Catesby

Artist, English, 1679 - 1749

The image shows two birds perched on a tree branch. The top bird is labeled as the "little brown Flycatcher" and the lower bird as the "red Eyed Flycatcher." The color palette includes brown tones for the birds, green for the leaves, and subtle hints of red in the flowers near the leaves. The upper bird is positioned to the right near the top, while the lower bird is slightly larger and placed towards the lower right, next to the green leaves and flowers on the left.

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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: 35.4 x 26.4 cm (13 15/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 51.1 x 36.7 cm (20 1/8 x 14 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.163.87

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Natural History, Vol. vol.1, 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

lower left in plate: Arbor Lauri fol: &c.; lower center in plate: Muscicapa oculis rubris. / The red Eyed Flycatcher.; upper center in plate: Muscicapa Fusca / The little brown Flycatcher; upper right in plate: T.54; by later hand, lower center in graphite: 1743

Watermarks

HONIG

Wikidata ID

Q74895068

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