
Artwork Details
- Title
- Frigate Pelican, from the book Birds of America
- Artists
- Copy after John James Audubon
- Date
- 1835
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 38 x 25 3⁄8 in. (96.6 x 64.3 cm)
- Markings
- lower right in plate: Engraved Printed & Coloured by R. Havell 1835. lower center in plate: Frigate Pelican./TACHYPETES AQUILUS. Viel./Male Adult. lower left in plate: Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon. F.R.S.F.L.S. upper right in plate: PLATE CCLXXI back lower left in pencil: TCW/65 upper left in plate: No. 55
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund
- Mediums Description
- hand-colored engraving and aquatint on paper
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Animal
- Animal — bird — pelican
- Object Number
- 1980.91