Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.5
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Audubon's Watercolors for The Birds of America
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Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini), Havell plate no. 285 | 1835 | 1863.17.285 |
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Brant (Branta bernicla), Havell plate no. 391 | 1824 | 1863.17.391 |
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Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas), Havell plate no. 24 | 1821 | 1863.17.24 |
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White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis), Havell plate no. 278 | 1831 | 1863.17.278 |
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Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor), Havell plate no. 147 | 1829 | 1863.17.147 |
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Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus), Townsend's Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi), and Gray Jay (Perisoreus canadensis), Havell plate no. 419 | 1836 | 1863.17.419 |
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius), Havell plate no. 190 | 1822 | 1863.17.190 |
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Cooper's Hawk (Accipter cooperii), Havell plate no. 36 | 1824; c. 1824-26 | 1863.17.36 |
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Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica) | 1863.18.27 | |
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Copperplate for Connecticut Warbler (Oporornis agilis), plate no. 138 in John J. Audubon's "Birds of America" | 19th century | 1947.129 |
