print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.3516
- Title
- Series: Diversae Avium Specie (Several Bird Species)
- Description
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Title of the series written on a draped cloth in the centre, held by two eagles at the top and by two snakes at the bottom; frontispiece to a series of twelve prints showing birds
Etching
- Production date
- 1659
- Dimensions
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Height: 72 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 105 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is first state before number, for second state see S.3517. This is the title-page to a series of twelve prints showing different species of birds. For the complete series see S.3516-3541
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Sheepshanks.3516
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.3516