Collection Highlights
Cayambe
Date:
1858
Object Number:
S-91
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Audubon's Watercolors for The Birds of America
Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica), Havell plate no. 258
Object Number:
1863.17.258
Date:
1832; 1835
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and pastel with touches of gouache and black ink, scratching out, and scraping on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 14 3/4 x 21 7/16 in. (37.5 x 54.5 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN / 1830
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Hudsonian Godwit. Male 1. Young. Female 2. Summer Plumage. / LIMOSA HUDSONICA, Swain. and Richard. --"; birds numbered right and left respectively: "1"; "2."; six lines of erased inscriptions at middle left including: "...feet..."
Description:
Female, breeding plumage, left; immature male, right
Gallery Label:
Bird at left probably painted by Audubon in spring 1835; bird at right painted by his son in Boston in 1832
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.
