Collection Highlights
Speech of His Excellency George Washington, Esq; president of the United States of America, delivered to the Honorable the Congress
Date:
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1789.39
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Museum Collections
Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio), Adult Male
Object Number:
1889.10.2.2
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 x 11 1/8 in. (20.3 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: 2 [in a box] [unintelligible letter]
With text in French and Latin [see also unicode field]:
At left: Pie griesche / moyenne. / De trois coleurs faut que tienne / Pie griesche moyenne. / Par dessous elle est blanchatre, / Par dessus bleuë & roussatre. / L'autheur. / De Vannelles
At right: Picula secunda, Vel media / Pie griesche seconde, ou moyenne. / Cœrula ceu prima est ceu tertia rufa colore. / Dicta tibi merito Picula sum media / De eadem. / Idcirco media appellata est. Picula quòd sit, / Cœruleæ simul & rufæ donata colore. / De eadem. / Quam mediam dices adversa candida parte / Cœrulea aversa sum Picula rufa colore. / L'autheur. / B. Textor.
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.
