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National Gallery of Art

433 works

Watercolor of a dead yellow songbird lying on its side with blue wing feathers and loose feathers on a dark brown background.

Dead Bird

Robert Bolling Brandegee, c. 1867

Watercolor of a dead yellow-breasted bird on the ground among dry stems, with a hazy autumn landscape behind it.

Dead Yellow-breasted Bird in Autumn Landscape

Fidelia Bridges, 1870s

Engraved title page with a reclining lion, rocks and trees, and French lettering reading Recueïl de Lions, 1729.

Recueïl de Lions: Dessinés d'après nature par divers maitres et gravés par B. Picart (Collection of Lions: Drawn from…

Bernard Picart with plates after Albrecht Dürer, after Charles Le Brun and after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1729

Saddled Horse with a Study of a Rider

Edgar Degas, c. 1860s

Etching of the Court of the Lions at the Alhambra with a central fountain, arcaded colonnades, and small figures in period dr

View into the Court of the Lions at the Alhambra

Louis Meunier, 1660s

Woodcut of a haloed bearded figure gesturing among many animals, with elephants, lions, birds and trees under sun and moon.

The Creation of the Animals

after Raphael Anonymous, c. 1550

Book page with German poem Die Vögel and a black woodcut vignette of stylized birds, page 58.

Die Vögel (The Birds) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1912/1922

Etching of a tree-framed London-style street with row houses, shop awnings, a lamppost and small figures on the pavement.

The Sign of the White Horse, Parson's Green

Theodore Roussel, c. 1906

Engraving of Christ with disciples distributing loaves and fishes to a crowd before a rocky landscape with a mountain.

The Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes

Léonard Gaultier, probably c. 1572/1580

Hand-colored bird plate showing a mountain mockingbird above a male and female varied thrush on a mistletoe branch.

Mountain Mocking-bird and Varied Thrush

Robert Havell after John James Audubon, 1837

Engraving of fishermen hauling a full net from a boat as a haloed figure looks on, with a crowd and town on shore.

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Léonard Gaultier, 1577

Hand-colored plate of two hovering Ruff-necked Hummingbirds near a pink flower, with a perched female on a nest below.

Ruff-necked Humming-bird

Robert Havell after John James Audubon, 1837

Hand-coloured print of a yellow warbler and three blue bluebirds perched on a branch with red flowers and leaves.

Townsend's Warbler, Arctic Blue Bird and Western Blue Bird

Robert Havell after John James Audubon, 1837