Artist/Maker
Unidentified artist
(French, active ca. 1520–1570)
Associated with
Pierre Vase
(French, ca.1520–after 1590)
Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus), Adult Non-breeding
ca. 1554-1564
Watercolor, gouache, black ink over traces of black chalk on ivory paper, formerly laid on an album page
Overall (irregular): 14 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (36.2 × 26.7 cm)
Gift of Nathaniel H. Bishop
1889.10.1.35
DescriptionAvian studyMarkingsInside cover of Album 1 contains a printed catalogue description reading: "Drawings of European Birds, a Collection of upwards of 200 Drawings, most beautifully executed colours, of European Birds, taken from Nature, and most faithfully copied with a view to be published; but from the death of the artists M. la Grese, and M. Petit, they never were engraved. Most of them are accompanied with their names, in 4 large vols. oblong folios, formerly in the Duke of Devonshire's Collection"
InscribedInscribed along left edge vertically: "Trochilus alter. Guillemot. 35"; at center: "Le Guillemot [not a guillemot]"
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Collections
- Rare Watercolors of European Birds, 1540-1590
Unidentified artist
ca. 1554-1564
1889.10.1.34
Unidentified artist
ca. 1554-1564
1889.10.3.27
