Sun Bird
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 Henry Louis Stephens, 1824 - 1882 (after)
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Color lithograph
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27 × 17.5 cm (10 5/8 × 6 7/8"); Book (closed): 28.1 × 19.8 × 3.5 cm (11 1/16 × 7 13/16 × 1 3/8"); Book (opened): 28.1 × 41.2 cm (11 1/16 × 16 1/4")
- Holding institution
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Image provider
- smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Subject Matter
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Animals Both · 99%
A bird is the dominant nonhuman form, with visible wings, tail feathers, and a perched position; the catalog lists Bird among the subjects.
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Hybrids and Imaginary Creatures Visual · 99%
The image visibly combines a human head and clothed torso with avian wings and tail, forming a fanciful human-animal hybrid.
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Portrait Both · 96%
The frontal human face and upper body are presented as a character-like portrait, and Portrait is included in the catalog subjects.
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Caricatures and Parody Both · 98%
The incongruous human-bird combination and exaggerated presentation are visibly comic, while the catalog explicitly classifies the subject as Caricature.
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Flora Both · 98%
Flowering branches and clustered blossoms are prominent visual elements, and the catalog lists a tree branch under Plant.
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Text Visual · 99%
The words “SUN BIRD.” are clearly printed beneath the image.
Medium and Techniques
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Lithograph Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the medium as color lithograph.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The work is dated 1851, placing it within nineteenth-century art.
Materials
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Use of Paper Metadata · 86%
The catalog describes the object as a sheet and records it as part of a book; a paper support is therefore strongly indicated, though the supplied medium field does not explicitly state paper.
Source & rights
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918. Sun Bird. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.