Water Bird in a Landscape
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Water Bird in a Landscape, ca. 1780. Opaque watercolor on paper, with frame: 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 3/4 in. (69.9 x 49.5 x 1.9 cm) image: 18 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (46 x 27.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Dr. Bertram H. Schaffner, 2010.48.61. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Water Bird in a Landscape
Date
ca. 1780
Geography
Possible place made: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper
Classification
Dimensions
with frame: 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 3/4 in. (69.9 x 49.5 x 1.9 cm) image: 18 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (46 x 27.7 cm)
Inscriptions
In English script, in pencil, in bottom margin: Charadriidae Himantopus (type and species of bird). In English script, in ink, in bottom margin: Long-leg'd Plover or Stilt, B.C. (initials of cataloguer), 453 (folio number)
Markings
Watermark in paper: JWHATMAN
Credit Line
Bequest of Dr. Bertram H. Schaffner
Accession Number
2010.48.61
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