Waterfowl, Melchior de Hondecoeter

Melchior d'Hondecoeter is the artist behind "Waterfowl, Melchior de Hondecoeter". The catalogue places it in Plants & Animals. The format is landscape. Plants & Animals in brief: Naturalists and artists often worked together, especially on voyages and in published surveys of flora and fauna. Images of plants and animals run from medieval herbals and bestiaries to the scientific illustration of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

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Dutch, 1636–1695

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