Yellow-headed Blackbird, Female Blackbird, and Female Cape May Warbler

Alexander Lawson

Artist, American, 1773 - 1846

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored engraving with etching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34.3 x 27 cm (13 1/2 x 10 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 37.6 x 28.7 cm (14 13/16 x 11 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.163.105

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green, Virginia; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Drawn from Nature by Titian R. Peale.; across bottom in plate: 1. Yellow-headed Blackbird. / Icterus Icterocephalus. / 2. Female. / 3. Female Cape May Warbler. / Sylvia Maritima.; lower right in plate: Engr; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 15-

Wikidata ID

Q74895202

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