Toucan and Another Tropical Bird, c. 1600

Not on View

volume Title

Avium Vivae Icones (Living images of birds)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 13.1 x 18.3 cm (5 3/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 1412, State only

Accession Number

1993.32.1.t

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

above bird on right in plate: Sicophante; lower center in plate: Adrian. Collaert excud.; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 4; by later hand, beneath bird's breast on left in pen and ink: A; by later hand, lower left in pen and ink: A. Bressila. Vulgo Pica Barbara.

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. 1412, state only.