Silver birch trunk and branch with rose, lizards, a snake, toadstools, butterflies and a snail, by Otto Marseus van Schrieck

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Silver birch trunk and branch with rose, lizards, a snake, toadstools, butterflies and a snail. Marseus van Schrieck, Otto, attributed to (Dutch, c.1619-1678). Oil on canvas, height 61.7 cm, width 52.3 cm. Production Note: Formerly attributed to Rachel Ruysch.

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Accession Number: PD.40-1975
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 866 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 699.52kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2017:10:20 10:15:25

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17th Century amphibian botanical butterflies butterfly Dutch Dutch Golden Age Fitz_PDP floral flowers funghi fungus lizards Marseus van Schrieck mushrooms oil on canvas Otto Marseus van Schrieck painting roses silver birch snails toadstools tree trunks trees van Schrieck vegetables

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