Title

Wagtail with Fruit, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes.

Caption

Wagtail with Fruit, 1785. Bird from Ceylon. A small bird with 4 chestnuts, one of which is cut open....doesn't hop, lives on flies and caterpillars...Ceylon Adam's Apple is poisonous. it closes one's throat, so that one cannot eat or drink for three days...

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A73_378

Model release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

41,3Mb (2,4Mb) / 11,0in x 14,6in / 3302 x 4371 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe animal India Indian fruit arts bird birds country nut nuts science art museum Netherlands Dutch Sri Lanka color songbird chestnut location century drawing watercolour Colour natural history Wagtail sketchbook 18th century Eighteenth Century Ceylon Ceylonese Hindoostan Rijksmuseum TGN passerine pencil paper Heritage Art Drawing sketch-book Low Countries watercolour (paint) Jan Brandes Brandes Jan Brandes Johan Johan Brandes