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Orpheus with beasts and birds, by Roelant Savery

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An image of Orpheus with beasts and birds. Savery, Roelant (Dutch, 1576-1639). Oil on copper, height 22.6 cm, width 26.4 cm, 1622.

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Orpheus with beasts and birds. Savery, Roelant (Dutch, 1576-1639). Oil on copper, height 22.6 cm, width 26.4 cm, 1622.

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  • Accession Number: 342
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/11.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 869 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 223.53kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 11/1

Key words

17th Century animal animals beasts big cats birds camels cats cheetah cows deer dogs Dutch fantastical fantasy Fitz_PDP forest goats horses lions mythological mythology nature oil on copper Orpheus ostrich painting parrots Roelandt Savery Roelant Savery Savery stags swans waterfall waterhole white horse wooded woodland woods

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rgb(34,28,16), rgb(176,162,119), rgb(123,111,74), rgb(147,150,122), rgb(116,131,130), rgb(85,73,43), rgb(87,103,93), rgb(67,89,93), rgb(63,50,28), rgb(63,70,45), rgb(112,44,25)

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