Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator), Havell plate no. 358
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Classification:
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Not promoted
Date:
1833-34
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, and black chalk with touches of black ink and glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 20 1/8 x 14 1/2 in. (51.1 x 36.8 cm)
Mat: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Description:
Adult female, upper center; adult male, lower left; immature, lower right
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.358
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN / 18[?]0
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: "pay attention / to Male diseased / legs!"; below: "PINE GROSBEAK / No 72. Pyrrhula eneucleator / [erased]…pl 358"; at lower right: "Plate 358 / Adult Male Spring plumage 1. / adult female 2. / Young Male 3"; birds numbered counterclockwise from lower left: "1"; "2"; "3"; erased inscriptions in lower register
Gallery Label:
The background flora has been identified as Scrub pine (Pinus virginiana) or Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1834
eMuseum Object ID:
27968
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus), Havell plate no. 272
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1834
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black ink, and black chalk with scraping and touches of glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 21 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (54.6 x 74.9 cm)
Mat: 31 x 41 in. (78.7 x 104.1 cm)
Description:
Adult, left; immature, right; Audubon originally called this Richardson's Jager, after Sir John Richardson (1787 – 1865), a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer, who co-author the second volume of Fauna Boreali-Americana (1831) with William John Swainson.
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.272
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right of center in graphite[erased]: "...Audubonii -- 1 Male adult 2. Young Autumn plumage"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1834
eMuseum Object ID:
27965
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Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), Havell plate no. 271; two studies of a foot
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Classification:
Is owned by NYHS:
Yes
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1832
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, and black ink with touches of red gouache[at corner of eye] and glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 38 1/4 x 25 3/16 in. (97.2 x 64 cm)
Mat: 53 x 39 in. (134.6 x 99.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.271
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN / 1831
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in graphite[erased]: "Center this Bird."; at lower right in brown ink below studies: "foot above,"; to right: "foot beneath"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1832
eMuseum Object ID:
27964
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Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), Havell plate no. 270
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1831
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, black ink, and pastel with touches of glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 12 1/2 x 19 3/16 in. (31.8 x 48.7 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.270
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in graphite: "No 54"; at lower center: "Yellow billed Sea Swallow"; birds numbered left and right respectively: "1"; "2"; erased inscriptions at upper left
Gallery Label:
Sketched in 1831, probably completed later
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1831
eMuseum Object ID:
27963
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Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia), Havell plate no. 269
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Classification:
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Date:
c. 1835
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, and black ink with touches of glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 14 x 21 3/8 in. (35.6 x 54.3 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Description:
Male, winter plumage. This European species is regarded as an improbable observation; never seen in North America since Audubon's Florida sighting; possibly a juvenile of another species of wader.
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.269
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN / 1834
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in graphite: "N. 54"
Gallery Label:
Havell incorporated a drawing by George Lehman of a Spanish fort on the water's edge at St. Augustine; colored engraving in N-YHS collections; greenshank is an European bird
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
27962
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American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), Havell plate no. 268
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Classification:
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Not promoted
Date:
c. 1832-34
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, collage, pastel, black ink, and black chalk with touches of gouache, scratching out, and selective glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 14 3/4 x 21 5/8 in. (37.5 x 54.9 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.268
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper left in graphite: "No 4 -- 253"; at upper center: "This wing p... / ...st--- / This Bird[with line drawn to indicate upper bird] / more in the center ---"; at lower center: "Watch the holes in the Mud"; lower birds numbered right and left respectively: "1"; "3"; erased inscriptions throughout
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1834
eMuseum Object ID:
27961
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Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus), Havell plate no. 267
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1835
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black chalk, black ink, and gouache on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 29 5/16 x 21 7/16 in. (74.5 x 54.5 cm)
Mat: 35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.267
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN / 1831
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in graphite: "Lestris parasiticus. Ill."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
27960
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Havell plate no. 266
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Classification:
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Not promoted
Date:
1833; 1834
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black ink, and gouache with touches of white lead pigment and selective glazing on paper which has had a strip trimmed off and reattached during mounting, all laid on car
Dimensions:
Paper: 25 9/16 x 38 3/16 in. (64.9 x 97 cm)
Mat: 39 x 53 in. (99.1 x 134.6 cm)
Description:
Adult male, right; female and young, left
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.266
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper right in graphite: "The Young, when half grown[cut] / exhibit the nostrils quite open --"; at lower right: "The Young when h[cut] / grown exhibit the / Nostrils quite open[cut]"; below: "Common Cormorant. / Phalacrocorax carbo. Du[cut] / ...[1?] Male in Winter plumage... / Female 2 -- June 19th -- / No 54[all crossed out] Plate 266 J.J.A"
Gallery Label:
female and young painted in Labrador July 1833; male at right possibly added March 1834
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1834
eMuseum Object ID:
27959
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), Havell plate no. 265
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Classification:
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Date:
c. 1834-35
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, and black ink with scratching out on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 12 1/8 x 19 3/16 in. (30.8 x 48.7 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Description:
Female, left; male, right
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.265
Marks:
Watermark: JWHATMAN
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in graphite[erased]: "...Sandpiper"; at lower left of center in brown ink[over erased graphite]: "BUFF BREASTED SAND-PIPER. / TRINGA RUFESCENS. Viell?"; at lower center: "Buff breasted Sandpiper / Male 1. Female 2."; at lower right: "Tringa rufescens, Viellot?"; birds numbered right and left respectively: "1"; "2"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
27958
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Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea), Havell plate no. 263
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
c. 1832-34
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black ink, and gouache on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 12 1/16 x 18 1/16 in. (30.6 x 45.9 cm)
Mat: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Description:
Immature, left; breeding plumage, right
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number:
1863.17.263
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in black ink: "Pigmy Curlew. Adult Male 1. Young 2. / TRINGA SUBARQUATA, TEMM."; birds numbered right and left respectively: "1"; "2"; erased graphite inscriptions throughout
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1834
eMuseum Object ID:
27957
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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