Collection Highlights
Wedding dress
Date:
ca. 1712 with several alterations into the 20th century
Object Number:
1949.115a
Medium:
Silk brocade, needlepoint lace; silk chiffon
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Museum Collections
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Palm Warbler (Dendroica palmarum), Havell plate no. 145
Object Number:
1863.17.145
Date:
1821; c. 1822
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black chalk, black ink, and gouache with selective glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 17 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (43.8 x 29.2 cm), irregular
Mat: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "No 15. Plate 73. / Published / 1829. / Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon / Bayou La Fourche January[?] 1st 1821--"; at lower center: "Yellow Red Poll Warbler Male / Sylvia Petechia"; at lower right: "Plant Helenium qaudridentatum"; birds numbered in graphite lower and upper respectively: "1"; "2"; at upper right corner: "45"
Description:
Female, above; male, below
Gallery Label:
The background flora has been identified as Sneezeweed (Helenium quadridentatum); male bird, which may have been collected by Audubon was painted on January 3, 1821; the female was added ca. 1822
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.
