A Study of a Pheasant with Extended Wings

Category

Library Item

Item no

39323

Title

A study of a pheasant with extended wings

Description

"Separate studies of the head are given in various positions, all remarkable for skillful drawing; there are a few notes referring to the colouring.... the parts left unfinished.. and were probably made as studies for a picture".

Date

1880

Size

29.0 x 25.0 cm

Type

Publisher's print

Location

Art and Design Library

This small set of prints by Japanese artists dates from 1880. The date of the original drawings is uncertain, but likely to be sometime in the early 1800s or late 1700s.

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Animals > Birds > Pheasants

Animals > Body parts > Heads

Animals > Body parts > Wings

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