Collection Highlights
Shrewsbury River, New Jersey
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-229
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa), Adult, Non-Breeding
Object Number:
1889.10.1.33
Date:
c. 1554-1564
Medium:
Gouache, watercolor, white lead pigment, and black ink over black chalk on ivory paper, formerly laid on an album page
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 3/8 x 11 1/2 in. (39.1 x 29.2 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: Ph,copus. Chevalier bruin Berge selon monsr. [la Grese?] 33
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.
