A Fish, ca. 1500

Title

A Fish

Draughtsman

• German, 16th century

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• Renaissance

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Red-brown ink and watercolour, highlighted with white, on ribbed laid paper

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• watercolours
• gouache
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• watercolour painting
• brush drawing
• white heightening

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• animal study

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet oben (mit der Feder in Braun): Dracho mannus

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet unten rechts (mit Bleistift): f 2295
Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• animal depiction

Main Motif

• fish
• animal

Associated Medium

• Giftfibel

Primary

• 25F62 bony fishes
• 25F62(Petermännchen) bony fishes (Petermännchen)

Secondary

• 49L12 Roman script; scripts based on the Roman alphabet