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Dead Birds

1685–1755
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dead Birds
  • Artist: Count Giorgio Durante (Duranti) (Italian, Palazzolo (?) 1685–1755 Palazzolo)
  • Date: 1685–1755
  • Medium: Watercolor over graphite; fragments of framing lines in pen and black ink at left and right edges
  • Dimensions: sheet: 5 1/16 x 6 3/4 in. (12.8 x 17.1 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
  • Object Number: 80.3.203
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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