A Green Plover | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1979.225
People: Maria Sibylla Merian, German (Frankfurt am Main 1647 - 1717 Amsterdam)
Title: A Green Plover
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 17th-18th century
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/295433

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Watercolor on vellum
Dimensions: 31 x 25.5 cm (12 3/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Colnaghi, London], sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year: 1979
Object Number: 1979.225
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 38, p. 47, repr. p. 116
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, in North...", Central European History (March 1985), vol. 18, checklist, p. 95
Katharina Schmidt-Loske, Die Tierwelt der Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717): Arten, Beschreibungen und Illustrationen, Basilisken-Presse (Marburg, 2007), pp. 110, 146, repr. pl. 71 (color)

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1979.225: A Green Plover