Collection Highlights
Camp scene from photograph
Date:
ca. 1861-1865
Object Number:
PR.022.4
Medium:
Wood engraving
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Museum Collections
Dipper (Cinclus cinclus), Adult
Object Number:
1889.10.1.52
Date:
c. 1554-1564
Medium:
Gouache, watercolor, black ink, and white lead pigment, over traces of black chalk on ivory paper, laid on paper, formerly laid on an album page
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 5/8 x 10 3/4 in. (21.9 x 27.3 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:
Along upper edge: Alcedo fluvialis vocalis.
Below: 36.[underlined]
Followed by text in Greek, French, and Latin [see unicode field] including following credits:
At left: L'autheur. / B. Textor.
Halcyone quædam fluviaccola cantibus urget. / Summa levi cursu, fidipes, licet, æquora libat. / L'autheur. / Joannes Tagautius.
At lower right: Le peintre / Isaac la Grese / L'escrivain / Thomas Huilier.
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.
