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Collection Highlights

Architect's Sign
ca. 1837
1953.197
Wood
Original Owner: John Butler Snook

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Dickcissel (Spiza americana)

Dickcissel (Spiza americana)
Title
Dickcissel (Spiza americana)
Date 
1811
Related People 
Artist/Maker: John James Audubon
Medium 
Pastel and graphite on paper
Dimensions 
Paper: 9 1/8 x 11 5/8 in. (23.2 x 29.5 cm) Mat: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Description 
Male above, female below
Credit Line 
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Object Number 
1863.18.2
Inscriptions 
Inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "192.& 193 Henderson 14 May 1811"; at lower center: "Black throated Bunting