Avium Vivae Icones (Living images of birds), c. 1600

Not on View

Medium

bound volume with 32 engraved plates (including title page)

Dimensions

page size: 17.1 x 24.8 cm (6 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, nos. 1404-1435

Accession Number

1993.32.1

Artists / Makers

Adriaen Collaert (artist) Netherlandish, c. 1560 - 1618

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

by later hand, on front endpaper in graphite: "Vogels von Diverse Plummage" / no.17 + 18 p.30 etc. / published c. 1600 and 1580, two series of which / the first one is unnumbered and bound at the / end. except the title page which opens the book. / [LD?]

Provenance

Antiquariaat Junk B.V., Amsterdam; purchased 1993 by NGA.

Associated Names

Antiquariaat Junk B. V.

Exhibition History

1995: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

1998: A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998, no. 75.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesburg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1404-1435.