Collection Highlights
Batter pitcher
Date:
1798
Object Number:
1937.587
Medium:
Stoneware, cobalt oxide
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), Havell plate no. 265
Object Number:
1863.17.265
Date:
c. 1834-35
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, and black ink with scratching out on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 12 1/8 x 19 3/16 in. (30.8 x 48.7 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in graphite[erased]: "...Sandpiper"; at lower left of center in brown ink[over erased graphite]: "BUFF BREASTED SAND-PIPER. / TRINGA RUFESCENS. Viell?"; at lower center: "Buff breasted Sandpiper / Male 1. Female 2."; at lower right: "Tringa rufescens, Viellot?"; birds numbered right and left respectively: "1"; "2"
Description:
Female, left; male, right
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.
