Collection Highlights
Dragonfly Table lamp
c. 1900-1906
N84.113
Glass, bronze
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Textile
Title
Textile
Object name
Yardage sample
Date
1954
Medium
Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 56 x 50 in. ( 142.2 x 127 cm )
Description
Cotton lithographed sample yardage with four reproductions of Audubon's "Birds of America", each in a grey bordered square: the Night Hawk in a white oak, Little Screetch Owl in a Jersey pine, Boattailed Grackle in a live oak, and the Canada Jay in a white oak; printed in green, black, brown, blue, grey and tan on a white ground; inscribed in top corners and across the bottom of each reproduction.
Credit Line
Gift of Howard & Shaffer, Inc.
Object Number
1954.196
Marks
printed: all over: "No. 38/ PLATE CLXXXVII/ Boattailed Grackle/ QUISCALUS MAJOR, Vielle/ Male 1, Female 2/ Live Oak - Quetcus viels/ ENGRAVED PRINTED and COLORED BY R. HOWELL 1834/ DRAWN FROM NATURE by J. J. AUDUBON F. H. S. - F. L. S./ No. 22/ PLATE CVII/ CANADA JAY/ ..."
Gallery Label
This yardage was used as a sample for prosepective buyers. It could be purchased in a minumum of twenty-five yards.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
