Willet (Tringa semipalmata)
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Date:
1824
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, black ink, and pastel with touches of gouache and glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 11 1/2 x 18 15/16 in. (29.2 x 48.1 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Description:
Female, summer plumage
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.18.16
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in black ink: "Drawn from Nature by John J. Audubon / Philadelphia May 9th 1824"; at lower center: "Semi-palmated Snipe. Female / Scolopax Semi-palmata"; at lower right in graphite: "21"; below in black ink: "Weight. 1 lb 1/2 oz. troy -- / Eggs = Shot no. 1 --"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1824
eMuseum Object ID:
27498
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Lark Bunting (Calamospiza melanocorys) and Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia), Havell plate no. 390; incomplete sketches of two birds
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Date:
1836-37
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and black ink on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 19 13/16 x 13 15/16 in. (50.3 x 35.4 cm)
Mat: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Description:
Song Sparrow, male, left; Lark Bunting, male, upper right; Lark Bunting, female, lower right; the Lark Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus) was added at the upper left to compose Havell plate no. 390, inserted from watercolor 1863.17.394
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.390
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: "No 7 -- / Pl. 188. [erased] 5. Browns... / Tringa..."; below in brown ink[over erased graphite]: "No 76 / Plate 378. --"; at lower center: "1, 2, Black-throated Bunting / Emberiza Americana. / 5. Brown Song Sparrow, Male. / Fringilla cinerea, Gmel. --"; at lower right: "3, 4. Prairie Finch / Fringilla bicolor, Townsend. --"; above in graphite: "Female May 28th 1836 -- / Platte River. -- J.K. Townsend --"; at middle right: "perhaps it would be w[cut] / to reverse this figure?"; at upper right diagonally: "Black throated Bunting Male"; at center: "Female Blk throated"; birds numbered in brown ink counterclockwise from upper center: "1"; "2"; "5"; "4[in graphite, No 8--]"; "5"; "3[in graphite, No 6]"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1837
eMuseum Object ID:
27497
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American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica); two studies of a foot, Havell plate no. 300
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Date:
c. 1815; c. 1830
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, collage, black ink, and pastel with touches of glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 14 9/16 x 21 11/16 in. (37 x 55.1 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Description:
Greater Golden-Plover, below right and possibly above right; Lesser Golden-Plover, left
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.300
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at middle left in graphite[erased]: "Extend the … / of the eye as marked / here! --- "; at lower center[erased]: "…ground and put distant mountains"; birds numbered counterclockwise from the lower right: "1"; "2"; "3"; erased inscriptions at lower center
Gallery Label:
Birds on left ca. 1815; birds on right ca. 1830; for the Havell plate the bird in flight was moved forward and the bird on the left was turned to face opposite direction and a landscape was added to the plate
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
27495
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Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri), Havell plate no. 299
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Date:
1826; c. 1835
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, black ink, and pastel[?] on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 13 3/4 x 20 3/8 in. (34.9 x 51.8 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.299
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in graphite: "Please Show the Legs & feet as much as you can / through the transparency of the Water, which I should / Like you to have as in the Razor billed Auk! / You may have distant rocky shores --"
Gallery Label:
Painting ca. 1835 based on a pencil sketch made on June 26, 1826; Havell completed the compostion according to Audubon's instructions
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
27494
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Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena), Havell plate no. 298
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Date:
c. 1832-33
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, oil, pastel, and collage with touches of black ink on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 14 13/16 x 21 7/16 in. (37.6 x 54.5 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Description:
Summer plumage, left; winter plumage, right
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.298
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper center diagonally in graphite: "The Yellow on this / bill must be light / and pure as is that / colour in the / other bird's bill / at the base --"; birds numbered in brown ink left and right respectively: "1"; "2"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1833
eMuseum Object ID:
27493
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Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus), Havell plate no. 297
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Date:
1833
Medium:
Watercolor, collage, graphite, pastel, and black ink with scratching out on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 21 1/2 x 29 1/4 in. (54.6 x 74.3 cm)
Mat: 31 x 41 in. (78.7 x 104.1 cm)
Description:
Adult male, left; immature male, upper right; female, below
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.297
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN / 1831
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in graphite: "60 Pl 297"; birds numbered clockwise from left: "1"; "2"; "3"
Gallery Label:
Two birds at right probably painted by John Woodhouse in Maine in spring 1833 and later pasted onto his father's composition
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1833
eMuseum Object ID:
27492
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Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), Havell plate no. 295
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Date:
1831; [1833]
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and black ink on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 14 3/4 x 21 3/8 in. (37.5 x 54.3 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.295
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in graphite: "Manks Puffin -- Edwards. / Puffinus anglorum, Ray."; at upper center: "Pufinus anglorum[crossed out]"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1831
eMuseum Object ID:
27491
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Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos), Havell plate no. 294
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Date:
1832
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, black and brown ink, pastel, and gouache with scraping and touches of glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 14 3/4 x 21 3/8 in. (37.5 x 54.3 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Description:
Adults
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.294
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper right in graphite: "59 -- 294"; erased inscriptions throughout
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1832
eMuseum Object ID:
27490
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Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata), Havell plate no. 293
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Date:
c. 1834-35
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and pastel with touches of gouache on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 14 13/16 x 21 7/16 in. (37.6 x 54.5 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Description:
Summer plumage
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.293
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in graphite: "LARGE-BILLED PUFFIN. MORMON glacialis, Leach."; birds numbered left and right respectively: "1"; "2"
Gallery Label:
Specimens were provided by John Gould, a distinguished bird artist
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
27489
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Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), Havell plate no. 291
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Date:
1831
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black chalk, and black ink with touches of gouache, white lead pigment, and glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 37 1/4 x 25 5/16 in. (94.6 x 64.3 cm)
Mat: 53 x 39 in. (134.6 x 99.1 cm)
Description:
Adult, breeding plumage, above; immature, below
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.291
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: "No 58 -- 286 -- / take the leg off / Seen in the Bird on / Wing --"["X" on leg to indicate removal]; birds numbered upper and lower respectively: "1"; "2"
Gallery Label:
Unpublished drawing,Herring Gull (1863.18.38); immature gull is the work of Lehman, who also painted the view of St. Augustine harbor; Audubon added the flying adult bird to Lehman's composition
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1831
eMuseum Object ID:
27488
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