Collection Highlights
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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Chestnut-sided Warbler (Dendroica pensylvanica), Havell plate no. 59
Object Number:
1863.17.59
Date:
1812; c. 1825
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, gouache, and black ink with selective glazing on two sheets of paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 17 x 10 5/8 in. (43.2 x 27 cm)
Mat: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN
Inscriptions:
Inscribed on upper sheet of paper at lower left in brown ink: "No 124[4 scraped out] 59[in graphite] / May 17th 1812 Pennsa"; at lower center on upper sheet: "Silvia Pensylvanica / Figuier a Poitrine Rouge de Buffon -- / Chesnut Sided Warbler. A.W. drawn by J.J. Audubon"; on lower sheet at left of center: "Chesnut-Sided Warbler / Male 1. F. 2. / Sylvia icterocephala. / Plant Verbascum Blattaria / var. fl. albicante / Moth Mullein"; birds numbered left and right respectively: "1"; "2"
Description:
Female, above; male, below
Gallery Label:
The background flora has been identified asMoth mullein (Verbascum blattaria); upper bird done 1812; male at left and branch where perched added ca. 1825; working proof- proof set #3 in N-YHS collection (Wilbur fund February 19, 1947); drawing extended 3" at bottom
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.
