Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), Havell plate no. 21
Object Number:
1863.17.21
Date:
c.1825
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black chalk, gouache, and black ink with touches of scratching out and selective glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 29 3/4 x 20 7/8 in. (75.6 x 53 cm)
Mat: 52 x 39 in. (132.1 x 99.1 cm)
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN / 18[?]
Gallery Label:
The background flora has been identified as Yellow jessamine (Gelsemium empervirens). The rattle snake was copied from a drawing made at Oakley Plantation August 25, 1821.
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.
