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Wenceslaus Hollar
Two Butterflies, a Wasp, and a Moth, 1646
etching on laid paper
plate: 8.1 x 12.1 cm (3 3/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
sheet: 8.3 x 12.2 cm (3 1/4 x 4 13/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection

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Circle of Jan van Kessel the Elder
Study of Birds and Monkey, 1660/1670
oil on copper
overall: 10.5 x 17.2 cm (4 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Gift of John Dimick

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Wenceslaus Hollar
Shell (Murex brandaris), c. 1645
etching on laid paper
plate: 9.5 x 13.6 cm (3 3/4 x 5 3/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Gift of Edward William Carter and Hannah Locke Carter, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

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Jan van Kessel the Elder
Study of Insects and Reptiles [center], c. 1660
oil on copper
overall: 38.5 x 55.5 cm (15 3/16 x 21 7/8 in.)
framed: 55.2 x 71.3 cm (21 3/4 x 28 1/16 in.)
Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA

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Jacopo Ligozzi
A Groundhog or Marmot with a Branch of Plums, 1605
brush with brown and black wash, point of the brush with black and brown ink and white gouache, and watercolor, over traces of graphite on burnished paper
sheet: 33 x 42.3 cm (13 x 16 5/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

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Jan van Kessel the Elder
Insects and a Sprig of Rosemary, 1653
oil on panel
overall: 11.5 x 14 cm (4 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, The Richard C. Von Hess Foundation, Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund, Barry D. Friedman, and Friends of Dutch Art

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Clara Peeters
Still Life with Flowers Surrounded by Insects and a Snail, c. 1610
oil on copper
overall: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
framed: 25.4 x 22.86 x 3.81 cm (10 x 9 x 1 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

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Robert Hooke
Micrographia: or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. / With observations and inquiries thereupon, 1665
bound volume with etched illustrations
height (foldout illustrations significantly larger): 31 cm (12 3/16 in.)
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, Gift of the Burndy Library

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Jacob Hoefnagel, after Joris Hoefnagel
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii [Part 1, Plate 5], 1592
engraving
sheet (approximately): 24 x 32 cm (9 7/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Gift of Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter

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Jan van Kessel the Elder
Artist's Name in Insects and Reptiles [bottom center], 1658
oil on copper
overall: 14.3 x 19 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
framed: 25.1 x 30.8 cm (9 7/8 x 12 1/8 in.)
Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA

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Jan van Kessel the Elder
Insects [bottom right corner], 1658
oil on copper
overall: 14.3 x 19 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
framed: 25.1 x 30.8 cm (9 7/8 x 12 1/8 in.)
Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA

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Jan van Kessel the Elder
Noah's Family Assembling Animals Before the Ark, c. 1660
oil on panel
overall: 65.4 x 94.5 cm (25 3/4 x 37 3/16 in.)
framed: 83.19 x 112.4 cm (32 3/4 x 44 1/4 in.)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland (Museum purchase, 1946), 37.1998

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Teodoro Filippo di Liagno, called Napoletano
Skeleton of a Quadruped, 1620–1621
etching on laid paper
each plate: 13.97 x 8.47 cm (5 1/2 x 3 5/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars

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Teodoro Filippo di Liagno, called Napoletano
Skeleton of a Heron, 1620–1621
etching on laid paper
each plate: 13.97 x 8.47 cm (5 1/2 x 3 5/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars

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Marmota monax (Marmot/woodchuck),
overall: 24.13 x 55.88 x 22.86 cm (9 1/2 x 22 x 9 in.)
Loan courtesy of National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

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Megasoma elaphus (Elephant Beetle),
Loan courtesy of National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

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Pavo cristatus (Indian Peafowl) (peacock),
overall: 76.2 x 121.92 cm (30 x 48 in.)
Loan courtesy of National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

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National Museum of Natural History's recreation of Jan van Kessel the Elder's "Insects and a Sprig of Rosemary",
Loan courtesy of National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

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