Collection Highlights
American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States
Date:
1880
Object Number:
LIB.Y1808.W
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Red Shank (Tringa totanus), Juvenile
Object Number:
1889.10.1.32
Date:
c. 1554-1564
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, gouache, with touches of white lead pigment over traces of black chalk on ivory paper, formerly laid on an album page
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 x 10 13/16 in. (38.1 x 27.5 cm), irregular
Marks:
Inside cover of Album 1 contains a printed catalogue description reading: "Drawings of European Birds, a Collection of upwards of 200 Drawings, most beautifully executed colours, of European Birds, taken from Nature, and most faithfully copied with a view
Inscriptions:
Inscribed along left edge vertically: Chloro[rhius crossed out]pus. Chevalier verd. 31
At upper center: La chievrete[?]. Craex.
Description:
Avian study
Credit Line:
Gift of Nathaniel H. Bishop
Provenance:
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth, England; John Cassin, Philadelphia, 1869; M.Thomas & Sons, Philadelphia, 1872; Nathaniel H. Bishop, Toms River, New Jersey
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
