Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo

Publisher Mezzanine Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art

1986

Not on view

Butterworth is a contemporary British artist who works in the ornithological tradition of John Gould (1804-1881) and Edward Lear (1812-1888). She has focused on parrots and cockatoos-studying them in captivity and in the wild, examining their skins in museums, and keeping them as pets. This print depicts a sulpher-crested cockatoo. Etching and aquatint were used to achieve the delicate tonal gradations, and the color was added by hand. An emphasis on flat pattern gives the image a slightly surreal quality.

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Title: Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
Artist: Elizabeth Butterworth (British, born Rochdale, Lancashire, 1949)
Printer: The Print Centre, Ltd.
Publisher: Mezzanine Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date: 1986
Medium: Etching and dust-grain gravure with hand coloring
Dimensions: plate: 16 9/16 x 8 5/16 in. (42 x 21.1 cm)
sheet: 28 1/8 x 19 1/2 in. (71.4 x 49.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 1988
Object Number: 1988.1028.1
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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