Collection Highlights
Proposed Coat of Arms for New Amsterdam, New Netherland: Preparatory Drawing for a Presentation to the Dutch West India Company
Date:
ca. 1630
Object Number:
1885.5
Medium:
Black ink and wash, watercolor, red and black chalk, and red gouache, with contours incised by a stylus on laid on paper, mounted on card
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Boat-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major), Havell plate no. 187
Object Number:
1863.17.187
Date:
1832
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black ink, and gouache with scratching out and selective glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 29 3/8 x 21 3/16 in. (74.6 x 53.8 cm)
Mat: 41 x 31 in. (104.1 x 78.7 cm)
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN / 1830
Description:
Female, above; male, below
Gallery Label:
The background flora has been identified as Live oak (Quercus virginiana) with Spanish moss; this was the 3rd time Audubon drew this bird, the 1st was on MS River 1/1821, the 2nd time was made for and published by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in plate four of his "Continuation of Wilson's American Ornithology,"
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.
