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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1953.75.60
People
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French (Paris 1686 - 1755 Beauvais)
Title
Quizzical Bird; verso: blank
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Avian Album
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/148120

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1953
Object Number
1953.75.60
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Roger F. Pasquier and John Farrand Jr., Masterpieces of Bird Art: 700 Years of Ornithological Illustration, ed. Susan Costello, Abbeville Press (New York, 1991), repr. as "Great Bustard" on p. 52
  • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, and Sarah Anne Carter, Tangible Things: Making History through Objects, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, 2015), p. 157, repr. as fig. 126

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