Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), Female

ca. 1554-1564

Watercolor, gouache, black ink, and white lead pigment over black chalk on ivory paper, laid on paper, formerly laid on an album page

Overall (irregular): 6 13/16 × 8 7/8 in. (17.3 × 22.5 cm)

Gift of Nathaniel H. Bishop

1889.10.2.13

DescriptionAvian Study

MarkingsInside 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 upper edge: Vanflora foemina 21 [in a box] BB At lower left: Velia fœmina / Marescagier femelle. / Suffusco Velia insignis niveoque colore / Sum caput & dorsum secus ac mas fœmina picta. / L'autheur. / B. Textor. At lower center: Le peintre. / Isaac la Grese. / L'escrivain. / Thomas Huilier.

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