Collection Highlights
The Assassination of President Lincoln, at Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. April 14th 1865
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.052.60
Medium:
Paper
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Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus), Havell plate no. 56
Object Number:
1863.17.56
Date:
c. 1826
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black ink, and collage with selective glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 35 1/4 x 25 1/8 in. (89.5 x 63.8 cm)
Mat: 53 x 39 in. (134.6 x 99.1 cm)
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right of center in brown ink: "Red-shouldered Hawk. Male 1. F. 2. -- / Falco lineatus."; at lower right: "No 12 Plate 56"; birds numbered lower and upper respectively: "1"; "2"
Description:
Female, above; male, below
Gallery Label:
The background flora has been identified as possibly White oak (Quercus alba); 1809 drawing of this subject is owned by the Princeton University Library. (See Princeton University Library Chronicle vol. XV Summer 1954, No. 4, page 169 ff.)
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.
