Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana) ?, Pieter Withoos, c. 1687 - c. 1692

Title(s)

Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana) ?

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1918-442

Artist

• draughtsman: Pieter Withoos

Dating

c. 1687 - c. 1692

Physical features

watercolour, with pen and brown ink and opaque watercolour, over traces of graphite; framing line in brown ink

Material

• paper
• deck paint
• gouache (paint)

Measurements

height 175 mm × width 212 mm

What

• water-birds: spotted crake

Credit line

• Gift of C.P.D. Pape

Acquisition

gift 1918

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance