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

11 Der Grune Hantling

Artist Johann Leonhard Frisch (German, 1666 - 1743)

Date1817

MediumEngraving, hand colored

Dimensionsneed dims

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Elizabeth Reeves

Object number2011.17.3

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PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionFour birds standing on a branch. The top left bird has light yellow and white coloring with black speckles throughout; the top right bird has a yellow body with black speckles on its back, and black stripes along its wings; the bottom left bird has an orange head, back, throat, chest, and belly, and brown neck, wings, and tail; and the bottom right bird has light yellow and gray coloring and speckles throughout, and darker gray wings. Plate 11 from "Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland und beilaufig auch einiger Fremden nach ihrer Eigenschaften beschrieben," Berlin, 1817.