Museum Object Number1959.0162.072 |
Print (Aquatint)
Pine Creeping Warbler,/ SYLVIA PINUS. Lath Male, 1. Female, 2. Yellow Pine.
Prints and Maps
Gift of Mrs. G. Brooks Thayer
Robert Havell Jr. (Engraver, printer and colorist)
John James Audubon (Designer, draftsman, and publisher)
Engraver, printer, and colorist for many of the plates of Audubon's Birds of America.Works include Birds of America (1827-38) and Vivaparus Quadrupeds of North America (1845-51).
179304/26/1785
187801/27/1851
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Plate engraved, printed and colored by Havell in London.
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
Painted by Audubon while at Oakley, the Pirrie plantation near St. Francisville, where he was employed as a tutor during the summer of 1821. He wrote on the painting: "James Pirrie's Plantation Louisiana July 10\th 1821."
1832
1. Inscription ; Bottom left beneath image; Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon,F,R,S.F,L,S.
2. Inscription; Bottom right beneath image; Engraved, Printed, & Coloured, by R.Havell, London, 1832.
Zoological illustration
Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)
Aquatint, Etched, Engraved, Hand colored, Painted
38.84 (H) , 25.6 (W) , 18.5 (Image H) , 11.5 (Image W)
98.65 (H) , 65 (W) , 18.5 (Image H) , 11.5 (Image W)
H at left. W below center. Plate H: 19.4 in. (49.2 cm). Plate W: 12.3 in. (31.2 cm).
Audubon, John James
London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
I
Lower left: "J WHATMAN/ 1834"
Hand colored with watercolors
From the first edition double-elephant folio of John James Audubon, The Birds of America (London: J. J. Audubon, 1827-39).
Text available soon.
[Book] Low, Susanne M. 2002 A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America.
• Plate listed on pp. 99-100.