The Swallow-Tailed Indian Roller

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Swallow-Tailed Indian Roller

George EdwardsLinkedCulture matchlcp-1bbe56eaafdc

Date
1802–1805
Medium
Hand-colored engraving
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
8908

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A Natural History of Uncommon Birds was an early and important contribution to the burgeoning field of ornithological illustration in England. This depiction of an Indian Roller illustrates the predominant conventions for representing birds at the time, showing it in a static profile view and perched on a stump. The detail may be exacting, but the representation is very different than the approach taken to showing Lady Impey’s birds. Europe

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Credit line
The Minnich Collection The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund, 1966

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