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Titlepage
(1650-1655); published 1694
for the Multae et diversae avium species (Many and various species of birds) series published 1694 edition
Medium
etching
Measurements
12.8 × 17.6 cm (image) 13.1 × 17.8 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
Gallery location
Rembrandt Cabinet
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
English artist Francis Barlow specialised in paintings of animals, birds and hunting scenes. In c. 1650–55 he published Multae et diversae avium species, a series of fifteen etchings of birds that were once attributed to Hollar but are now believed to have been etched by Francis Place. Hollar, however, was involved in a second series of bird etchings based on Barlow’s drawings, Diversæ avium species. Barlow himself also made etchings including an extensively illustrated edition of Aesop’s Fables, in the preface of which he seemed to disparage Hollar in his claim that his own etchings did not aspire to a ‘Curious Neatness’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Printing/Publishing
published by Pierce Tempest, London
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.c.: Multæ et Diversæ / Avium Species / Varÿs Formis et pernaturalibus Figuris per / FRA:BARLOW Anglum / Curâ ac Sumptibus P:Tempest / Delineatæ Incisæ ac Typis / Editæ . / 1694
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: 27
Accession Number
1278.1388-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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