Jan van Kessel the Elder, Insects and a Sprig of Rosemary, 1653, oil on copper, The Richard C. Von Hess Foundation, Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund, Barry D. Friedman, and Friends of Dutch Art, 2018.41.1
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Joris Hoefnagel, Plate 53: Southern Hawker Dragonfly, c.1575/1590s, watercolor and gold paint on parchment, Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1987.20.5.54
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Jacopo Ligozzi, A Groundhog or Marmot with a Branch of Plums, 1605, watercolor and ink with white gouache over traces of graphite on burnished laid paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke, 2007.111.121
Adriaen Collaert, Hoopoe and Owl, c. 1600, engraving on laid paper, Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art, 1993.32.1.f
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Shell (Murex brandaris), c. 1645, etching on laid paper, Gift of Edward William Carter and Hannah Locke Carter, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1992.17.2
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Teodoro Filippo di Liagno, Skeleton of a Heron, 1620-1621, etching on laid paper, Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars, 2023.5.14