A Concert of Birds
date: label: date made
content: 1778
name: label: engraver
content: Earlom, Richard
label: publisher
content: Boydell, John
label: artist attribution
content: dei Fiori, Mario
label: original artist
content: Snyders, Frans
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Music
label: Subject
content: Birds
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Marsh Collection
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Marsh Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0534.03.05
label: accession number
content: 1978.0534
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0534.03.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: mezzotint
label: Object Type
content: Intaglio Processes
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 43.5 cm x 59.5 cm; 17 1/8 in x 23 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 41.75 cm x 57.5 cm; 16 7/16 in x 22 5/8 in