# Eurasian Bullfinch

- By: Barbara Regina Dietzsch (Neurenberg, 1706–1783)
- Date: 1716 - 1783
- Medium: paper, deck paint
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 292 mm x width 211 mm
- Credit line: Gift of C.P.D. Pape
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1918-475--91e360ad7a7d601d10e596c97f444891)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/dDEAB/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Dietzsch used stuffed specimens as models, and often exaggerated their beauty. Here, she emphasized the liveliness of the bird, with one claw lifted, the beak slightly open, and a knowing twinkle in its eye. Her depictions were widely used to decorate natural history cabinets, where real specimens and pictorial representations were displayed together in an aesthetic arrangement.