At the base of some stone building fragments, there is an arrangement of a dead lobster and a group of fish beneath a large fish and an eel dangling from a string affixed via a nail to the remains of the ruined wall. A live parrot, seen from the back, head turned in profile, is perched on a nearby stone at the upper left (above the marine still-life); plants, at right. Date: 1740. Dimensions: 30.6 x 41.6cm (12 1/16 x 16 3/8in.); Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.); ; Frame: 44.8 x 60.3 x 2.5 cm (17 5/8 in. x 23 3/4 in. x 1 in.). Medium: laid paper, white chalk. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Still-life with Fish and Parrot, 1740 (CH 18353861)
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