Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio), Adult Female

ca. 1554-1564

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

Overall (irregular): 8 1/8 × 11 1/8 in. (20.6 × 28.3 cm)

Gift of Nathaniel H. Bishop

1889.10.2.3

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 at upper center: 3 [in a box] D. Ty~ponus tertius [above crossed out illegible word] Masle. At left: Picula tertia. / Pie griesche Troisiesme. / Alba est adversa, quæ Picula tertia fertur / Parte, sed aversa Picula rufa patet. / L'autheur, B. Textor / Tierce Pie griesche. / La tierce griesche a le dessous de blancheur, / Et le dessus couvert de naïfue rousseur. / De Vannelles. At lower center: Le peintre / Isaac la Grese. / L'escrivain / Thomas Huilier.

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