Collection Highlights
Geometrical Lathe-work Proof
Date:
Object Number:
PR.221.63
Medium:
Engraving
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Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri), Havell plate no. 299
Object Number:
1863.17.299
Date:
1826; c. 1835
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, black ink, and pastel[?] on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 13 3/4 x 20 3/8 in. (34.9 x 51.8 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in graphite: "Please Show the Legs & feet as much as you can / through the transparency of the Water, which I should / Like you to have as in the Razor billed Auk! / You may have distant rocky shores --"
Gallery Label:
Painting ca. 1835 based on a pencil sketch made on June 26, 1826; Havell completed the compostion according to Audubon's instructions
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
