Museum Collections
Luce Center
Wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
Object Number:
1889.10.2.43
Date:
c. 1554-1564
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, black ink, and white lead pigment over traces of black chalk on ivory paper, formerly laid on an album page
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/16 x 10 13/16 in. (28.1 x 27.5 cm), irregular
Marks:
Inside cover of Album 1 contains a printed catalogue description reading: "Drawings of European Birds, a Collection of upwards of 200 Drawings, most beautifully executed colours, of European Birds, taken from Nature, and most faithfully copied with a view
Inscriptions:
Inscribed along left edge vertically: 59 [in a box] OOO.
Along lower right edge vertically: 8 f.s.
With text in French, Greek, and Latin [see unicode field] including the following credits:
At center: L'autheur / B. Textor.
At lower center right: Le peintre. / Michel petit. / L'escrivain. / Thomas Huilier.
Description:
Avian Study
Credit Line:
Gift of Nathaniel H. Bishop
Provenance:
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth, England; John Cassin, Philadelphia, 1869; M.Thomas & Sons, Philadelphia, 1872; Nathaniel H. Bishop, Toms River, New Jersey
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.