Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
1. Barn swallow. 2. Female. 3. White bellied S. 4. Bank S.
Call Number
E North 32/GC024/Box 027/Normal/19th c./Artists Wam-Welc GA 2007.00685
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcqn59qh122
Publisher
1812.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1812
Extent
1 item ; sheet 37.3 x 29 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Edward Naumberg, Princeton University Class of 1924.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings, Color prints
Depiction: Three Swallows (two brown, one blue) perched on separate tree branches, one blue Swallow flying overhead.
Item description: One of five printed pages of birds probably taken from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology, published between 1808-1814. Page 38.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Drawn from nature by A. Wilson".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Engraved by J. Warnicke".

Discovery Information

Subject
Birds in art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1b57d31e-8a43-445f-b46b-a744fc1d106c/manifest