Kentucky Fly-catching Warbler

1830s

John Woodhouse Audubon

Artist, American, 1812 - 1862

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black and gray ink with watercolor on wovepaper

  • Credit Line

    John Davis Hatch Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 27.6 × 19.3 cm (10 7/8 × 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1979.20.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Davis Hatch [1907-1996], by 1976; gift 1979 to the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1976

  • Hatch, John Davis. 100 American Drawings: Loan Exhibition from the Collection of John Davis Hatch. London: Heim Gallery, 1976, no. 21.

Inscriptions

lower center in pen and brown ink: Kentucky Flycatching Warbler. / Magnolia auriculata. / 1.Male. 2.Female.;lower left in graphite by unknown hand: From / Mrs. S.G. Dodge; upper right verso in red colored pencil by unknown hand: 19 (circled); center verso in graphite by unknown hand: The Birds of Amer./ [not deciphered]/ NY + photo 1841/ photo # 15 (...); lower left verso in pen and blue ink by unknown hand: John H. (not deciphered)

Wikidata ID

Q64584508

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