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The Tropic Bird (Phaeton aethereus) Wall Art
ART BY: Mark Catesby
The Tropic Bird (Phaeton aethereus) Wall Art
ART BY: Mark Catesby
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About this artwork
The Tropic Bird (Phaeton aethereus) is a print, etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper by Mark Catesby (1683–1749), dated probably 1743/1762. The original is held by the National Gallery of Art, and the file offered here measures 4096 × 2430 px (1.9 MB). You will find it among Plants & Animals, Neoclassicism and Animals, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 432 works by Mark Catesby, a British artist.
Mark Catesby was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World. Between 1729 and 1747, Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Mark Catesby →
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