Collection Highlights
Southern Chivalry - Argument versus Club's
Date:
1856
Object Number:
PR.010.1856.4
Medium:
Lithograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio), Adult Female
Object Number:
1889.10.2.3
Date:
c. 1554-1564
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, white lead pigment, and black ink over black chalk on ivory paper, laid on paper, formerly laid on an album page
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/8 x 11 1/8 in. (20.6 x 28.3 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:
Inscribed at upper center: 3 [in a box] D. Ty~ponus tertius [above crossed out illegible word] Masle.
At left: Picula tertia. / Pie griesche Troisiesme. / Alba est adversa, quæ Picula tertia fertur / Parte, sed aversa Picula rufa patet. / L'autheur, B. Textor / Tierce Pie griesche. / La tierce griesche a le dessous de blancheur, / Et le dessus couvert de naïfue rousseur. / De Vannelles.
At lower center: 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.
