Five sheet fragments with birds and other animal studies:  parrots, kingfisher, bat, fish, rooster, guinea pig.
DrawingsNetherlandish16th century

Five sheet fragments with birds and other animal studies: parrots, kingfisher, bat, fish, rooster, guinea pig.

16th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Description

Verso, glue residue from an old mount

Classification
Drawings
Medium
Brown ink, opaque watercolor, touches of black graphite, on paper prepared with wash (?)
Culture
Netherlandish
Century
16th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Drawings

Dimensions

irregular: 6.03 x 88.9 cm (2 3/8 x 35 in.)

Provenance

Jon Nicolas Streep, New York, sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston,1962; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.174.

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