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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1964.147
People
John James Audubon, American (Les Cayes, Haiti 1785 - 1851 New York, NY)
Title
Black Cocks
Other Titles
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
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
  • 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
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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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