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Anatra Salvata (Gadwall) 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 Salvata (Gadwall) 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
Anatra Salvata (Gadwall) 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

Anatra Salvata (Gadwall) 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 (plate mark): H: 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm); W: 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)
MediumHand colored engraving
ClassificationPrints
Credit LineGift of Edward T. Hill
Object number
2014.37
Not on View
DescriptionImage of an animated bird by the edge of a body of water
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.
Speculum Naturale (page)
Dr. d. Legenda Aurea
about 1481
Sono Sugata Yukari no Utsushi-e
Utagawa Kunisada
1852, bound in 1854

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