1840-1860
GUSN-11306
Of rectangular format, of a bird composed of feathers. A brown and white flecked bird, with grey painted legs and beak, the eye of cut-out paper; it is standing on a jutting rock in a minimally sketched island of landscape. The land scape consists of a patch of grassy area, a white flower at the right edge and grassy tufts scattered about with two stylized pines to the far left. The bird stands in profile facing right. It is framed and glazed, the frame has a gilded inner lip, with an ebonized outer edge and facing molding painted to look like walnut.
pictures (two-dimensional representations)
feather (material)
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
feather (material)
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Feather
Bird
PICTURE, ANIMAL
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
8 x 11.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1653.1
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