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

Alexander Lawson after Titian Ramsay Peale

Associated Names
Alexander Lawson

Artist, American, 1773 - 1846

Titian Ramsay Peale

Artist After, American, 1799 - 1885

This is a painting of three birds perched on branches. The image includes a larger bird with dark brown feathers and a yellow chest on a branch, a second bird with a bright yellow head and black body on the ground, and a smaller speckled bird with light brown tones reaching out to catch an insect. There is sparse vegetation with a small sprig of grass next to the branch, in the style of John James Audubon.

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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 Number

    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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