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Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao)
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
The ‘three large books’ assembled by De Boodt must have comprised a book each for plants, animals and birds. Many bird studies have a loss at one corner, and damage suffered by that book may have prompted the 18th-century remounting campaign. Here the added setting is still unfinished, and the Latin name for this South American parrot is missing.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-BR-2017-1-4-39
- Dimensionsheight 270 mm x width 182 mm
- Physical characteristicspenseel in waterverf en dekverf in kleuren, gehoogd met witte dekverf, potlood, pen in bruin