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View from Cozzen's Hotel Near West Point, N.Y.
Date:
1863
Object Number:
S-189
Medium:
Oil on canvas

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Copperplate for Yellow-billed Magpie (Pica nuttalli), Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), Western Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica), Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), Havell plate no. 362 in John J. Audubon's "Birds of America"

Object Number: 
1977.14
Artist/Maker:
Robert Havell Jr.
After:
John James Audubon
Date: 
1837
Medium: 
copper, steel-faced
Dimensions: 
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. ( 76.8 x 64.8 cm )
Marks: 
inscriptions: metal label on reverse: Audubon's Birds of America/Original Plate
Description: 
Plate for the engraving of Yellow-billed Magpie, Stellar's Jay, Western Scrub-Jay, Clark's Nutcracker, Havell Plate no. 362 for Audubon's "Birds of America".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. John E. Parsons in memory of her husband, John E. Parsons, trustee
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Creative: Tronvig Group