Buffle Head Duck
Mark Catesby
(1683 - 1749)
London, England
1731-1734
Etching in black with hand coloring in salmon, brown, blue, pink and blue-green on paper
14 3/16 x 20 1/2 in. (36.04 x 52.07 cm)
1952.30
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Buffle Head Duck, 1731-1734
Mark Catesby
Etching in black with hand coloring in salmon, brown, blue, pink and blue-green on paper
14 3/16 x 20 1/2 in. (36.04 x 52.07 cm)
The Chipstone Foundation 1952.30
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Engraving in black with hand coloring in salmon, brown, blue, pink and blue-green on paper.
Originally published as part of Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.
Inscriptions:
Signed "MC"in plate, in image, lc. Inscribed "T 95" in plate, above image, ur. Inscribed "Ana &c." in plate, below image, lr.
Dealer: S. Polacheck
References:
Feduccia, Alan. Catesby's Birds of Colonial America. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1985, pl. 39.
Originally published as part of Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.
Inscriptions:
Signed "MC"in plate, in image, lc. Inscribed "T 95" in plate, above image, ur. Inscribed "Ana &c." in plate, below image, lr.
Dealer: S. Polacheck
References:
Feduccia, Alan. Catesby's Birds of Colonial America. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1985, pl. 39.
Meghan Doherty, 2006
This information is subject to change as the result of ongoing research.
