Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Rocky Mountain Anteater, and Female Golden-winged Warbler

Alexander Lawson after Titian Ramsay Peale

Associated Names
Alexander Lawson

Artist, American, 1773 - 1846

Titian Ramsay Peale

Artist After, American, 1799 - 1885

Three birds are depicted in the image: a long-tailed grey and black bird with a pale yellow tuft on its head perched at the center, a smaller brown bird standing on the ground with tufts of grass to the right, and a small yellow and grey bird sitting on a branch to the left. The color palette includes shades of grey, black, brown, and yellow. The long-tailed bird is central, with its body extending horizontally, while the brown bird is positioned on the lower right and the yellow and grey bird is on the upper left on a branch intersecting the central bird's branch.

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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: 34.6 x 26.2 cm (13 5/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 37.6 x 28.9 cm (14 13/16 x 11 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.163.103


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.; lower right in plate: Engraved by Alexander Lawson.; across bottom in plate: 1. Fork-tailed Flycatcher. / Muscicapa Savana. / 2. Rocky Mountain Anteater. / Myiothera Obsoleta. / 3. Female Golden-winged Warbler. / Sylvia Chrysoptera.

Wikidata ID

Q74895197

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