Collection Highlights
Shrewsbury River, New Jersey
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-229
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Three Eastern Gray Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis leucotis), Study for Plate no. 35 of "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America"
Object Number:
Z.3330
Date:
1842
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, pastel, graphite, gouache, and white lead pigment with selective glazing on ivory paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/8 x 22 1/4 in. (76.5 x 56.5 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in brown ink: "No 7. / Plate 35."; at lower left below graphite border in graphite: "Sciurus migratorius.[Aud L--crossed out] Bach. -- Leucotis Spc. -- Var. / N.Y. Dec.r 29th --1842. -- / Migratory Squirrel"
Description:
This drawing shows three squirrels on a tree trunk, one squirrel is completely finished in watercolor as is the tree trunk. The other two squirrels are roughly sketched in with only graphite outlines. For Havell Plate #35 for The Quadrupeds of America. Formerly S-8.
Provenance:
Possibly from Frederic De Peyster, New York City
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
