Collection Highlights
Twenty-third Street west of Sixth Avenue
Date:
1900
Object Number:
PR.020.FF.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons), Havell plate no. 286
Object Number:
1863.17.286
Date:
c. 1832-33
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black chalk, black ink, and collage with touches of gouache and scratching out on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 24 3/16 x 37 5/8 in. (61.4 x 95.6 cm)
Mat: 38 × 52 in. (96.5 × 132.1 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left of center in brown ink: "No 58"; at lower center: "White-fronted Goose, Lath. / ANSER ALBIFRONS, Bechst. / Male 1. Female 2."; at lower right of center: "Plate 286.", birds numbered in graphite lower and upper respectively: "1"; "2"; at upper right corner: "58"; erased inscriptions in lower register
Description:
Male, left; female, right
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.
