Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire
Date:
1835-1836
Object Number:
1858.3
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens), Havell plate no. 137
Object Number:
1863.17.137
Date:
1829
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black chalk, gouache, white lead pigment, and black ink with selective glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 29 5/16 x 21 1/16 in. (74.5 x 53.5 cm)
Mat: 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: \"Yellow-breasted Chat males 1.2.3.4. F.e 5. / Icteria viridis.--- Plant Vulgo- Sweet Briar. / From Nature by John J. Audubon F.L.S. / June 7th Jersey\"; below, in graphite[erased]: \"...Rosa rubiginosa...\"; to right of upper bird: \"Not be / engraved\"; four male birds each numbered: \"1\"; female on nest numbered: \"2\"
Description:
Males above; female on nest
Gallery Label:
The background flora has been identified as Rose (possibly Rosa virginiana) or Sweet briar (Rosa rubiginosa)
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon; Adopt-an-Audubon Bird sponsor: Valerie Thaler and Robert F. Petrie
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
