1964.147: Black Cocks
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1964.147
- People
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John James Audubon, American (Les Cayes, Haiti 1785 - 1851 New York, NY)
- Title
- Black Cocks
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Wild Game of Scotland
Former Title: Black Game of Scotland - Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1828
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/311343
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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122 x 184.5 cm (48 1/16 x 72 5/8 in.)
framed: 149.5 x 186.7 x 14 cm (58 7/8 x 73 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r. in red: J. J. Audubon/Edinb[illeg.] 182[illeg.]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Mr. Gally, “picture dealer,” Scotland; Edward Harris; John E. Thayer; gift to Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1939.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Gift of John E. Thayer, Class of 1885
- Accession Year
- 1964
- Object Number
- 1964.147
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Maria R. Audubon, Audubon and His Journals, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1897), vol. I, p. 299
- F. H. Herrick, Audubon the Naturalist (New York, NY, 1917), vol. I, p. 363 and footnote 14
- The Royal Scottish Academy, 1826-1916, James MacLehose and Sons (Glasgow, Scotland, 1917), p. 21
- John E. Thayer, Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by J. J. Audubon, Alexander Wilson, and Others: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of John Eliot Thayer, Under the Sponsorship of the Friends of the Thayer Museum, exh. cat., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1962), no. 12
- Edward H. Dwight, "Audubon's Oils", Art In America (April 1963), vol. 51, no. 2, 76-80, ill. p. 80
- Louise Todd Ambler and Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "American Painting at Harvard", Antiques (New York, NY, November 1972), vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 876-883, p. 879
- Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 40, ill.
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 77-78, cat. 30, ill.
Exhibition History
- Annual Exhibition, 1829, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1829 - 12/31/1829
- Unidentified Exhibition, Lyceum of Natural History, 1839, Lyceum of Natural History, New York, New York, 01/01/1839 - 12/31/1839
- John J. Audubon: A National Exhibition, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 04/26/1938 - 06/01/1938
- Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by J. J. Audubon, Alexander Wilson and Others Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of John Eliot Thayer, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, 04/03/1962 - 04/29/1962
- American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
- Understanding Nature: American Zoological Art from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/01/1989 - 01/14/1990
Verification Level
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