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    Image number: RS.10159
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    Nest of the Mallard

    Date
    1772
    Creator
    Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1734 - 1797, German) , Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    42210
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 395mm
    width (print): 255mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Description
    Study of a mallard’s nest Anas platyrhynchos containing a clutch of ten eggs.

    Plate 37 from book Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vogel...by Adam Ludwig Wirsing and Friedrich Christian Gunther (A L Wirsing, Nuremburg, 1772). Inscribed: “Tab.XXXVII. Pl.37 du Canard Sauvage. Wilde Ente. A.L.Wirsing excudit Norimberg.”
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