Anatra querquedula maggiore (Common Pochard) from Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornate

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Anatra querquedula maggiore (Common Pochard) from Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornate

Artist Lorenzo Lorenzi Italian, active 1750 - 1780

Artist Violante Vanni Italian, 1732 - 1776

Place of OriginItaly

Date1776

DimensionsSheet: H: 19 in. (48.3 cm); W: 15 in. (38.1 cm);
Image (platemark): H: 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm); W: 10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm)

MediumHand colored engraving

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Edward T. Hill

Object number

2014.38

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Published ReferencesZimmer, John Todd, Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library, Zoological Series, Publ. 239-240, vol. 16, Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1926, p. 241.

Wood, Casey A. (ed.), An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology Based Chiefly on the Titles in the Blacker Library of Zoology, the Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology, the Bibliotheca Osleriana, and Other Libraries of McGill University, Montreal, London, Humphry Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931, p. 450.

Bénézit, E., Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, France, Librairie Gründ, 1966, Vol. 5, p. 637 (Lorenzi), Vol. 8, p. 471 (Vanni).

Nissen, Claus, Die Illustrierten Vogelbucher: ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie, Stuttgart, 1976, p. 588.

Dance, S. Peter, The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their World, London, 1978, p. 70.

Sitwell, Sacheverell, Great Flower Books, 1700-1900, New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990, p. 92.

“Lorenzo Lorenzi: Gallo Commune…,” Vatican Library Collection, 2002, Link to resource (2 May 2005).

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, In Fine Feather, April 25-July 6, 2014.