Collection Highlights
Albert Gallatin (1761-1849)
Date:
ca. 1849
Object Number:
MSS.GallatinPapers.1
Medium:
Daguerreotype
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Museum Collections
Audubon's Watercolors for The Birds of America
Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), Havell plate no. 66
Object Number:
1863.17.66
Date:
c. 1825-1826
Medium:
Watercolor, pastel, black ink, graphite, gouache, and white lead pigment with selective glazing and outlining with a stylus on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 38 1/4 x 25 1/16 in. (97.2 x 63.7 cm) **Before Conservation
Mat: 53 x 39 in. (134.6 x 99.1 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "No 14. Plate 66. / Published / 1829."; to right: "Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Male 1. F.2 & 3. -- / Picus principalis --"; signed below: "Drawn from Nature by John. J. Audubon -- / Louisianna. --"
Description:
Male, left; female, right
Gallery Label:
MMA has an oil painting of this watercolor
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.
