
This unusual and charming miniature of a bison cavorting on a beach may have been adapted from a popular print of an American bison by the artist-naturalist Titian Ramsey Peale. The bison was a species that only recently had been discovered earlier in the century, making it unlikely that a live bison had been transported to Puerto Rico.
- Title
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Bisonte con palmeras (Bison with Palm Trees)
- Artist
- Attributed to Goyena family
- Date
- ca. 1825-1850
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 2 3⁄8 x 2 in. (6.1 x 5.2 cm) oval
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Teodoro Vidal Collection
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor on ivory
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Animal – buffalo
- Object Number
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1996.91.16
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI