Object Details
- engraver
- Earlom, Richard
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- artist attribution
- dei Fiori, Mario
- original artist
- Snyders, Frans
- Description
- Mezzotint with etching and aquatint, after painting formerly attributed to Mario dei Fiori, once in the Small Breakfast Room at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, attributed to Frans Snyders. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2.
- It has been suggested that the subject may refer to Aesop’s fable of The Owl and the Birds or it may represent an allegory of Air or Hearing.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- 1778
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.03.05
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.03.05
- Object Name
- mezzotint
- Object Type
- Intaglio Processes
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 43.5 cm x 59.5 cm; 17 1/8 in x 23 7/16 in
- plate: 41.75 cm x 57.5 cm; 16 7/16 in x 22 5/8 in
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Music
- Birds
- Record ID
- nmah_784901
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-a323-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
