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Ornament with Owl Mocked by Day Birds, c. 1474. Engraving on buff laid paper.
Engraving on buff laid paper · Image/plate: 14.2 × 10.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Ornament with Owl Mocked by Day Birds
- Artist
- Martin Schongauer German, c. 1430/50-1491
- Date
- c. 1474
- Medium
- Engraving on buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 14.2 × 10.2 cm (5 5/8 × 4 1/16 in.); Sheet: 14.6 × 10.3 cm (5 3/4 × 4 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.