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Painting of dead songbirds on a wooden ledge, one hanging by a cord, with a signature and date 1662 on the ledge.

Still Life with Birds

William Gowe Ferguson, 1662

Woman in red hat and blue dress leans over a wooden box as a bird escapes beside her, with a landscape behind.

Escaped Bird: Allegory of Chastity

Frans van Mieris, 1676

Still life painting of a hanging parrot with red tail feathers and two dead snipes resting on a stone ledge.

Still Life with Parrot and Snipes

Cornelis Lelienbergh, 1655

Dark still life of dead birds, hanging songbirds, a red powder flask and a game bag on a draped table.

Still Life with Birds and Implements of the Hunt

William Gowe Ferguson, 1684

Painted pale blue sky with clouds and many small birds flying across the canvas, some in flocks, one large bird central.

Dolls-house Ceiling-Painting of a Cloudy Sky with Birds

Nicolaes Piemont, 1690

Still life in a niche with a bowl of corn, artichoke, grapes, a green parrot, and a carved stone frame.

Still Life with a Bowl of Corn, Artichokes, Grapes and a Parrot

Jacob van Campen, 1645

Two eagles tearing at a dead duck on rocky ground under a cloudy sky, oil painting.

Eagles on the Cliffs

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1857

Hunter kneeling on a riverbank aiming a gun, with sailing boats, a heron and a distant town under a pale sky.

A Bird Hunter on a Riverbank

Arent Arentsz, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Painted niche with stacked books, sheet music, a violin, a celestial globe and an owl, framed by a fruit garland.

Still Life with Books, Sheet Music, Violin, Celestial Globe and an Owl

Jacob van Campen, 1645

Chalk drawing of a sleeping polar bear lying on its side, with a faint pencil study of the head above.

Studies of a Recumbent Polar Bear

John Macallan Swan, 1903

Drawing of Venus kneeling with Cupid aiming a bow, two swans in reeds below, a carriage in a forest to the left.

Venus Urging Cupid to Shoot his Arrow at Pluto

Roelant Savery, 1586 - 1639

Painting of a red ibis standing beside an egg on sandy ground, with a curved black beak, against a plain background.

Red ibis with an egg

Dorothea Maria Gsell, 1699 - 1701

Charcoal and watercolor studies of four parrots, three white cockatoos with yellow crests and one green parrot perched on a b

Four Studies of Cockatoos

Jan Weenix, c. 1650 - c. 1719

Grey wash drawing of musicians in an interior with a violinist, a keyboard player, a monkey, a parrot and dogs among instrume

Musicians in an Interior

Leonaert Bramer, 1606 - 1674

Hand-coloured greeting card with Dutch calligraphy, flowers, and an oval scene of a man reaching toward two ravens at sunrise

Greeting card with Elijah fed by ravens

Leonardus Schweickhardt, 1813

Grey wash drawing of a pale dove perched on a branch beside a tree stump, with grass in the foreground.

Bird in landscape

Krüger jr, 1772

Etching of an archer drawing a bow at a bird in flight, with wading figures and a domed building behind him.

Archer shoots a water bird

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1882

Engraving of a bearded man seated under a tree receiving food from a raven, with another raven flying above and a sunrise ove

Elijah fed by ravens

Jan Luyken, 1712

Red-printed ornamental border with a central spread-winged eagle, leaf and wreath motifs, and a blank field below.

Ornamental border with leaves and eagle

Bernard Willem Wierink, 1910

Etching of a winter landscape with bare windswept trees, a heron at right, farm buildings on the horizon and birds in the sky

Heron in a winter landscape

Lodewijk Schelfhout, 1940

Pencil sketch of several tall wading birds with long necks and legs, one bending down to feed among grass.

Six birds

Lucien Pissarro, 1873

Ink and watercolor drawing of a bird of prey with spread wings and yellow talons perched on a rock above waves.

Bird of prey on rock

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1808

Grey wash ornament panel of acanthus scrolls and vine leaves with four birds, signed Johannes Beretta 1791.

Ornament of leaf scrolls and birds

Johannes Beretta, 1791

Engraving of two peacocks, a rabbit and a parrot beside a basket, cage and jugs, with a kneeling child at left.

Peacocks, rabbit and parrot

Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert, 1611

Etching of a wooded river landscape with a hunter and dog on the bank and ducks swimming on the water.

Landscape with hunter hunting ducks

Jan Baptist de Wael, 1658

Hand-colored 1695 print of a skating man with three ducks on a stick, a woman skating beside him, and a winter town behind.

Ice-skating man with three ducks on a stick

Pieter van den Berge, 1695

Hand-colored print of twelve framed bird vignettes with Dutch labels, including nightingale, lark, finch and parrot.

Museum of birds

Lutkie & Cranenburg, 1848

Sheet of twenty-four hand-colored bird illustrations arranged alphabetically from A to Z, with Dutch labels beneath each bird

All sorts of birds, arranged in alphabetical order

Franciscus Antonius Beersmans, 1866

Engraving of hunters using nets to catch ducks and geese beside a river with trees and flying birds.

Samoyeds hunting ducks and geese

Andreas Stöttrup, 1782

Watercolor and pencil study of three parrots perched on branches, one red with blue wings, one red and yellow macaw, and one

Studies of parrots

Anna Maria Kruijff, 1880