Plate 4: An Egyptian Vulture, a Northern Goshawk(?), and an "Aquila Heteropode" (Short Toed Eagle?)

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Joris Hoefnagel

1580

Medium

watercolor and gold paint on parchment

Dimensions

page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

Accession Number

1987.20.8.5

About the Artist

Joris Hoefnagel · 1542–1600

Joris Hoefnagel, also known as Georg Hoefnagel, was born in 1542 in Antwerp to Jacob Hoefnagel, a prosperous diamond and luxury goods dealer, and Elisabeth Vezelaer, daughter of the Antwerp mint master. Intended for the family trade, he received a humanistic education, mastering languages, poetry, and music, but pursued art as a self-taught draftsman and miniaturist, receiving his first lessons fr...

Plate 4: An Egyptian Vulture, a Northern Goshawk(?), and an "Aquila Heteropode" (Short Toed Eagle?)

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