Orpheus with beasts and birds, by Roelant Savery

An image of Orpheus with beasts and birds. Savery, Roelant (Dutch, 1576-1639). Oil on copper, height 22.6 cm, width 26.4 cm, 1622.

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Orpheus with beasts and birds. Savery, Roelant (Dutch, 1576-1639). Oil on copper, height 22.6 cm, width 26.4 cm, 1622.

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Accession Number: 342
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 869 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 223.53kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 11/1

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17th Century animal animals beasts big cats birds camels cats cheetah cows deer dogs Dutch fantastical fantasy Fitz_PDP forest goats horses lions mythological mythology nature oil on copper Orpheus ostrich painting parrots Roelandt Savery Roelant Savery Savery stags swans waterfall waterhole white horse wooded woodland woods

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