Collection Highlights
Beschryvinge van Nieuvv-Nederlant
Date:
1656
Object Number:
LIB.Y.1656.D
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Luce Center
Broadside
Object Number:
1949.308
Date:
1841
Medium:
Silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 1/2 x 17 in. ( 49.5 x 43.2 cm )
Marks:
printed: bottom right: Henry Spear, Printer, 62 Wall Street, corner of Pearl
printed: all over: "The Birds of America/ BY JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, F.R.S.S.L. & E./ PRESENTED TO THE / MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION,/ BY A MEMBER OF ITS MEMBERS AND FRIENDS./ Th
Description:
Silk lithographed presentation broadside of the Mercantile Library Association; printed text and floral scroll decoration in the corners and sides in blue ink on white silk; embroidered with white silk thread across the top and down the sides; silk embroidered ribbon with a floral pattern in green, pink, and blue with blue fringe; attached to wooden roller with nails at top.
Gallery Label:
This broadside was made to announce the aquisition on March 4, 1841, of a set of the John James Audubon's Elephant folio edition of the "Birds of America" by the Mercantile Library Association of New York.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
