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Man Netting Birds
Man Netting Birds
Artist/Maker (Dutch, c. 1593 - 1641)
Date1615
MediumEngraving
DimensionsComposition: 4 5/8 × 12 3/16 in. (11.7 × 31 cm) Sheet: 4 3/4 × 12 3/8 in. (12.1 × 31.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Carnegie Corporation
Object number1928.22
On view
DescriptionNumber 17 from "Amoenissimae aliquot Regiunculae, et antiquorum momentorum ruinae," eighteen prints of landscapes and ruins.
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Exhibition History 2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).

2005
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. Hamilton Collects, "A Century of Curiosities: The Story of the Hamilton College Collection," September 29 - December 30, 2005 (unnumbered cat.).
Provenance 1928: Hamilton College (James Library), by gift of Carnegie Corporation.
Markings Abraded at lower right where original plate number appeared and renumbered by a later hand in ink: 3.
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil on verso at lower left: [illegible] 4259; in pencil on verso at lower right: 8.
Carpenters, from a series of etchings of crafts and trades
Carpenters, from a series of etchings of crafts and trades
Jan Georg van Vliet
Date: 1635
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1928.23
Blackburnian Warbler, plate 135 from "The Birds of America"
Blackburnian Warbler, plate 135 from "The Birds of America"
John James Audubon
Date: published 1832
Medium: Engraving and aquatint with hand-coloring
Object number: 1985.20
© Dickinson Estate. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
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Edwin W. Dickinson
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Medium: Oil on canvas
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Medium: Engraving on paper
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Photograph by John Bentham.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1776
Medium: Etching
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Photograph by John Bentham.
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Date: c. 1652
Medium: Etching
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Medium: Black and white photograph
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Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Black and white photograph
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A Tammany Rat, from "Harper's Weekly"
A Tammany Rat, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 7, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.259
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Fragment of a relief from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh
Date: c. 700-692 BCE
Medium: Gypsum alabaster
Object number: INV.629
Photograph by John Bentham.
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Wright Morris
Date: 1940
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.38
Entrance to the Buddhist Temple, Kandy, Ceylon
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Charles T. Scowen
Date: c. 1880s
Medium: Albumen print from a collodion negative
Object number: 2020.9.214