Collection Highlights
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
ca. 1941
1987.16
Plaster with purplish red-brown stipple finish
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Boreal Chickadee (Poecile hudsonica), Havell plate no. 194
Title
Boreal Chickadee (Poecile hudsonica), Havell plate no. 194
Date
1833
Medium
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black ink, and black chalk with touches of gouache on paper, laid on card
Dimensions
Paper: 21 3/16 x 14 1/8 in. (53.8 x 35.9 cm)
Mat: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Description
Adults, above; young, below
Credit Line
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number
1863.17.194
Inscriptions
Inscribed at middle left in graphite: "Female"; at lower right of center: "Parus Hudsonicus --"; at lower right: "Labrador July 20th 1833 -- / opposite Island of Macatine -- / J.J.A."; at middle right: "Male"; birds numbered in brown ink clockwise from upper center: "1"; "3"; "2"
Gallery Label
The background flora has been identified as probably Black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa); copper plate of engraving at the NY Botanical gardens
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
