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Mergo
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Mergo

Date1776
Engraver fl. ca. 1750 - 1774
Engraver 1732 - 1776
Compiler 1723 - 1785
OriginEurope, Italy, Florence
MediumEtching with period color
DimensionsOH: 16" x OW: 13"
Credit LineGift of Barnett Shepherd
Object number2018-269,48
DescriptionUpper margin reads: "DVI./ Mergo, o Smergo magg:re forse femmina dell'anteced:.e specie. = Mergus major, an antecedentis/ speciei foemina."Label TextFrom Saverio Manetti, 'Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornata,' 1767, Volume 5.
ProvenanceBefore 2007, Beckman Arms Antique Market (Rhinebeck, NY); 2007, purchased by Barnett Shepherd (Staten Island, NY); 2018-present, given to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).