1593000276000 1578573302000 Standard Record object-240039 1747246128921 1673432095000 1747245848743 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-240039 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240039 b7097f21-cd96-31ee-9324-657348ec68b1 6 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print Paintings, Drawings and Prints 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. P.14992-R 1 accession number P.14992-R 240039 priref 240039 Wessely (Earlom) 139 Nagler (Künstler-Lexicon) 4.36 (p.53) Lugt L.1568 Chaloner Smith undescribed uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240039 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240039 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by the Rev. R. E. Kerrich 1872 (received 1873) reference agent-150384 adlib-agent-150384 0ae58a6a-7d89-3df3-8276-7289c3f17929 Kerrich, Richard Edward 1873 1873 1873 bequeathed 1778 1778 1778-12-01 1778 printmaker reference agent-40505 adlib-agent-40505 03455d24-ca07-3108-a545-1c0de4834fef Earlom, Richard publisher reference agent-16702 adlib-agent-16702 28fa8222-4c04-329b-a7a7-1169f887f20e Boydell, John after painter reference agent-100127 adlib-agent-100127 1b5f9aa0-0a46-30a7-ab82-823a86af02f6 Nuzzi, Mario Mezzotint with etching and stipple, printed in black ink. As published. Lettered with artists' names below the image at lower left: 'Mario di Fiori pinxit' and right: 'Rich.d Earlom sculpsit'. Publisher's name and date below image at centre: 'John Boydell excudit 1778'. Title engraved in closed roman letters either side of the arms of the Earl of Orford: 'A CONCERT OF BIRDS' / In the Breakfast Room at Houghton / Size of the Picture 4f, 7i by 7f, 9 1/4i long ... Published Dec.r 1st 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.'. Inscribed (curatorial hand) in graphite in the right margin: '361' and lower left margin: '2 II' and just above the platemark at lower right: 'Kerrich'. Inscribed on the verso, oversized script (curatorial hand) in graphite: '361'. An impression of the first state before title is in the second of the two Boydell Houghton volumes bequeathed in 1816 by Lord Fitzwilliam; 'A Set of Prints Engraved after the Most Capital Paintings in the Collection of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of Russia, Lately in the Possession of the Earl of Orford at Houghton in Norfolk, Volume 2'. See, 31.K.8-4. The British Museum has proof impressions of the first state before title (1838,0420.203) and of the etched plate prior to mezzotint (1842,0806.211). reference term-136481 adlib-term-136481 ff114b08-4aa4-38d7-be1c-bf772a6edbea 18th Century reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print history note 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. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print

print reference term-29420 adlib-term-29420 cdde8bbf-3351-30b6-a408-35afb32359aa mezzotint reference term-29429 adlib-term-29429 a861c961-d1ca-3681-b969-f1996c72d9e8 stipple reference term-99807 adlib-term-99807 6a23afb4-3d15-3ece-a1f8-29cd185df9ca etching object OBJECT