Collection Highlights
View from Cozzen's Hotel Near West Point, N.Y.
Date:
1863
Object Number:
S-189
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Heran_Swamphen
Description:
Left: John James Audubon (1785–1851). Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), Study for Havell pl. 211, 1821; 1834. 1863.17.211. Right: Unidentified sixteenth-century avian artist. Western Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), Adult, ca. 1555–81. 1889.10.1.48.
Exhibitions:
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
