IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240039 accession number: P.14992-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the painting which was previously attributed to Mario Nuzzi (Mario 'di Fiori') (1603-1673), but which has since been reattributed to Frans Snyders (1579-1657), (c. 1630-40; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg [as 'Bird's Concert'] ], acquired in 1779 from the Robert Walpole collection at Houghton Hall, ??-607). A collection of exotic and domestic birds (including peacocks, hoopoes, a swan, a vulture and humorously, a bat) perched haphazardly upon two bare branches, each with its beak open as if singing. An owl, at centre left has an open music book at its feet. Mountains and a coastal town are seen in the background to the right. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: The '2' written in the margin of this print relates to a handwritten Museum register of loose Kerrich prints where this print is listed as no. 2 in the Kerrich 'Portfolio marked Py'. An encircled 'K' in the FM annotated Nagler refers to this Kerrich print. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by the Rev. R. E. Kerrich 1872 (received 1873) STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240039 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint TECHNIQUES ---------- stipple TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1778 - 1778 creation date earliest: 1778 creation date latest: 1778 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Earlom, Richard maker: Boydell, John maker: Nuzzi, Mario