drawing;
album
- Museum number
- SL,5279.5
- Description
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Two birds, from an album of 40 drawings of birds, reptiles, insects, plants and shells, etc by various artists; one with a brown breast
Watercolour, with bodycolour, on vellum
- Production date
- 1650
- Dimensions
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Height: 272 millimetres
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Width: 378 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred in 1845 to Manuscripts and returned to P&D 17 Nov 1886 (see note on fly-leaf of album). See also the P&D User's Guide, p.166 for further details. The fact that these drawings were purchased directly from the artist by William Courten was established by Carol Gibson-Wood in 'Journal of the History of Collections', 1997, p.66. Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5279.5
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: C,05.5
