116 Das Roohe Italienische
Artist
Johann Leonhard Frisch
(German, 1666 - 1743)
Date1817
MediumEngraving, hand colored, on paper
Dimensionsneed dims
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Cornelia and Richard Thornburgh
Object number2011.24.3
DescriptionA bird with a gray head, back, chest, and wings, a black stripe from beak to eyes and along its throat, white throat and belly, and brown-rimmed feathers along its sides, standing on a patch of rocky shoreline. Plate 116 from "Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland und beilaufig auch einiger Fremden nach ihrer Eigenschaften beschrieben," Berlin, 1817.
