Collection Highlights
President Lincoln at Home, Reading the scriptures to his son and wife
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.052.52
Medium:
Paper
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Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicaria), Havell plate no. 255
Object Number:
1863.17.255
Date:
1835
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, gouache, and black ink with touches of pastel and black chalk, and scratching out on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 14 3/4 x 21 1/16 in. (37.5 x 53.5 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "No 51 pl 255"; at lower center: "Red Phalarope Adult male 1. Adult Female 2. Winter Plumage. 3. / Phalaropus platyrhynchus, Temm."; at upper right: "Plate 255."; birds numbered counterclockwise from right: "1"; "2"; "3"
Description:
Male, breeding plumage, upper left; female, breeding plumage, right; winter plumage, lower left
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.
