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Needle-Tailed Swift (Hirundapus caudaculus)

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Date

1800s

Artist

Paul Huet (1803-1869)

Collection

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Image Link

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1973.176

Description

Inscription: signed, lower left, in brown ink: =hüet. ; VERSO, lower left, in black ink: 264 - Martinet géant ; lower left, in graphite: 364?
Medium: watercolor and gouache; framing lines in graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 48.5 x 34.6 cm (19 1/8 x 13 5/8 in.); Image: 22.5 x 22.8 cm (8 7/8 x 9 in.)
Credit Line: Delia E. Holden Fund
Accesion Number: 1973.176

Image Licence

CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Location

Asia

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Birds

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TWW Comment

The needle-tailed swift is a migratory bird that breeds in Central Asia and southern Siberia and winters in the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australia. The artist is not known to have travelled to these areas.

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