Collection Highlights
Journael Gehouden opt’ schip den gulden Bever en tschip den gulden Otter van de Manathans naer Patria Ende Wedrom naer de Manathans (Journal kept aboard the Ship the Golden Beaver and the Ship the Golden Otter from the Manhattans to Patria and the return)
Date:
October 1660- June 1663
Object Number:
MSS.Ships.Journals.1600
Medium:
Ink on paper
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Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus), Havell plate no. 350
Object Number:
1863.17.350
Date:
1836
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite with touches of pastel and scratching out on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 11 9/16 x 16 13/16 in. (29.4 x 42.7 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "No 70. / Plate 350."; at lower center: "Rocky Mountain Plover. / Charadrius montana. Townsend. / Adult Female. ---"; at upper center in graphite: "Rocky mountain Plover. -- Charadrius Montana? / Townsend --"; at upper right: "Rocky Mountain / female. June 4. 1834. / JK. Townsend -- / Length of Tail 2 1/2 Inches, 12 feathers / 2 outer ones broadly banded & Tipped / with dull buff white / First primary length. -- 1/4 of Inch. / quills white -- under wing coverts / Whiter -- / Wings & Tail even -- / Leg, beyond the Tail 1 Inch -- / breadth of Gape 1/4 Inch -- / J.J.A / Oct.r 1836"
Description:
Adult female
Gallery Label:
Havell added a mountain background in his engraving of this work
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.
