Audubon's watercolors, the complete avian collection
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BEIN 2011 Folio 66: No. 24 of 200. Autograph: Louise Mirrer, president, New York Historical Society. Blindstamps of New York Historical Society and Oppenheimer Editions.
Manuscript, in a single hand, consisting primarily of scientific and travel notes. The manuscript begins with Blagden's notes during his service as a surgeon in the army during the American Revolutionary War between 1776 and 1780. Stationed in the C...
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Sir Charles Blagden (1748-1820), was a physician and secretary of the Royal Society. In 1772, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1776 he became a surgeon in the army and served on a hospital ship during the American Revolutionary War....
Subject (Geographic):
United States., France, Great Britain, England, and United States
Subject (Name):
Blagden, Charles, Sir, 1748-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Science, History, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Intellectual life, Social life and customs, and Personal narratives, British
Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist we...
"A dog facing a cat that stands over a dead bird with a dead deer on the bench beside them, after Jervas. Plate 38 of Vol.1 of the 'Houghton Gallery'."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from text below image.
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Published March 2d, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside