Collection Highlights
Settee
Date:
ca. 1800
Object Number:
INV.14952
Medium:
Maple, paint
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Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus), Havell plate no. 71
Object Number:
1863.17.71
Date:
c. 1822
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, oil, collage, pastel, black ink, red chalk, and touches of black chalk with selective glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 25 1/16 x 38 9/16 in. (63.7 x 97.9 cm)
Mat: 39 x 53 in. (99.1 x 134.6 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at middle left in in graphite [erased]: Havell...[illegible]; below in brown ink: "No 15. Plate 71. / Published 1829. --"; at middle left of center: "Winter Hawk. Male adult. / Circus hyemalis. -- / Bull Frog. --"
Description:
Adult male
Gallery Label:
Frog and hawk's foot are pasted onto the drawing
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.
