Collection Highlights
Negro Life at the South
1859
S-225
Oil on linen
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Title
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Date
1820
Medium
Pastel, black chalk, watercolor, graphite, black ink, and gouache with touches of scratching out on paper, laid on card
Dimensions
Paper: 25 1/2 x 38 5/16 in. (64.8 x 97.3 cm)
Mat: 39 x 53 in. (99.1 x 134.6 cm)
Description
Male
Credit Line
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number
1863.18.40
Marks
Watermark: JWHATMAN
Inscriptions
Inscribed at middle left vertically in graphite: "No 9. Plate 41 -- / White headed Eagle -- Male -- / Falco-Leucocephalus -- / ...[cut]"; at lower right in two parts in brown ink?, the first gone over in white lead pigment: "White Headed Eagle / Falco Leucocephalus."; "Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon / Little Prairie Mississipi November 24, 182[cut]"; next to tail feathers in graphite: "12"
Gallery Label
Audubon was dissatisfied with this composition and, while in London in 1828, copied the eagle and replaced the goose with a catfish from another earlier painting
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
