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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.84
People
John James Audubon, American (Les Cayes, Haiti 1785 - 1851 New York, NY)
Title
English Robin
Other Titles
Former Title: English Redbreast
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1826
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307726

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
28 x 22.3 cm (11 x 8 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.l.: John J. Audubon / Drawn at Green Bank; l.r. 1826

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rathbone family, Liverpool, England (?); art market; purchased by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
1941.84
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This is an English robin, or Erithacus rubecula melophilus, on a species of honeysuckle vine.

Publication History

  • Alan Burroughs, A History of American Watercolor Painting, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1942), p. 17
  • John James Audubon, The 1826 Journal of John James Audubon, ed. Alice Ford, University of Oklahoma Press and Abbeville Press (Norman, OK, 1967), jacket ill.; p. 148, ill.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 28, 88-89, cat. 3
  • 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. 76-77, cat. 29, ill.

Exhibition History

  • A History of American Watercolor Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 01/27/1942 - 02/25/1942
  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977

Verification Level

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