Collection Highlights
Journael Gehouden opt’ schip den gulden Bever en tschip den gulden Otter van de Manathans naer Patria Ende Wedrom naer de Manathans (Journal kept aboard the Ship the Golden Beaver and the Ship the Golden Otter from the Manhattans to Patria and the return)
Date:
October 1660- June 1663
Object Number:
MSS.Ships.Journals.1600
Medium:
Ink on paper
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Blackburnian Warbler (Dendroica fusca), Havell plate no. 135
Object Number:
1863.17.135
Date:
1812
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, gouache, and black chalk with touches of black ink on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 15 15/16 x 10 1/2 in. (40.5 x 26.7 cm)
Mat: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at at lower left in graphite[erased]: "phlox maculata"; below in brown ink[over erased graphite inscriptions]: "No 38. / May 12th 1812. Pennsa"; at lower center: "Black burnian Warbler A. W. / Sylvia Blackburnia"; at upper right corner: "35"
Description:
Male
Gallery Label:
The background flora has been identified as Wild sweet william (Phlox maculata)
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.
