Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

217 Der Staar

Artist Johann Leonhard Frisch (German, 1666 - 1743)

Date1817

MediumEngraving, hand colored, on paper

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Ben M. Carter in honor of Enrique R. Anderson (Class of '95) and Family

Object number2014.38.30

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PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionTwo birds with black and white speckled bodies and green-tinted wings and sides, stand, one on a branch, and one on a patch of shoreline. Plate 217 from "Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland und beilaufig auch einiger Fremden nach ihrer Eigenschaften beschrieben," Berlin, 1817.