Art, literature & history
The Red-Headed Finch from Surinam
1741
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- hand-colored etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 23.9 x 19 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 28 x 21.5 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1983.105.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
George Edwards. The Red-Headed Finch from Surinam. George Edwards; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Edwards,_The_Red-Headed_Finch_from_Surinam,_1741,_NGA_62701.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Red-Headed Finch from Surinam — George Edwards. 1741.
Medium: hand-colored etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23.9 x 19 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 28 x 21.5 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1983.105.2. Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George B. Green.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.