19 Das Schwartz Kehlein
Artist
Johann Leonhard Frisch
(German, 1666 - 1743)
Date1817
MediumEngraving, hand colored, on paper
Dimensionsneed dims: 1 × 1 in. (2.5 × 2.5 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Peter DeSorcy
Object number2011.11.6
DescriptionFour birds standing on patches of grass. The top left bird has a gray and white head, black throat, gray wings, and orange belly and tail; the top right bird has a light brown head, back, wings, and tail, orange throat and chest, and white belly; the bottom left bird has a gray-brown head and wings, blue throat, black stripe across its chest, orange fading to white belly, and orange tail; the bottom right bird has a gray-brown head and wings, white belly speckled with gray, and orange tail. Plate 19 from "Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland und beilaufig auch einiger Fremden nach ihrer Eigenschaften beschrieben," Berlin, 1817.
