There is a bird with a yellow chest and blue-tinted wings lying on its side on a dark brown surface. The bird's head faces left, its legs stretch towards the right, and a small feather and a sphere-like object lie nearby at the bottom.
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Dead Bird

Robert Bolling Brandegee (American, 1849 - 1922)

c. 1867

Medium
watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
sheet: 17.15 × 25.08 cm (6 3/4 × 9 7/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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