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The image shows various animals in an etching style, set in a landscape with two houses, a fence, trees, hills, and a distant town. The sky has swirling clouds. The color palette is black and white.
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The image shows various animals in an etching style, set in a landscape with two houses, a fence, trees, hills, and a distant town. The sky has swirling clouds. The color palette is black and white.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Monkey, a Porcupine, Two Hedgehogs, a Buffalo and a Fox

Adriaen Collaert

Date
c. 1597
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 12.2 × 18.8 cm (4 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.) sheet: 12.7 × 19 cm (5 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
1972.28.89
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Animalium Quadrupedum: pl.19 [New Holl. 1462-1481]

Subjects and terms

  • Landscape
  • Flemish
  • Bridge
  • Tree
  • Lion
  • Monkey
  • animal
  • Building
Provenance

(Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York); purchased by the NGA, 1972.

NGA object ID 53253. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.